Iran Sees Ukraine War As Marketing Opportunity For Drones It Denies Supplying Russia

The U.S. has disclosed further evidence that Iran is arming Russia with armed drones for the war against Ukraine. While Iran maintains this is not the case, it sees the European war as a ripe opportun...

Iran And Turkey Push Ahead With Ambitious Drone Factory Projects In Russia And Ukraine

Recent reports indicate that Iran and Turkey are pushing ahead with their respective projects to build enormous factories in Russia and Ukraine for manufacturing large numbers of their homegrown Shahe...

Iranian Drones Are Being Modified To Russian Specifications

As Russia and Iran push ahead with plans to build a new factory for manufacturing thousands of loitering munitions (single-use, self-detonating drones) for the Ukraine war, remnants of one of these dr...

Covert Israeli Operations Against Iranian Missiles And Drone Plants Might Help Ukraine

Israel is the prime suspect behind the suspected drone attack on Saturday against a military target near the central Iranian city of Isfahan. The attack occurred a little over a day after an Israeli o...

Iran Might Be Waiting Until October To Supply Russia Deadlier Drones And Missiles For Ukraine

Since September, Russia has launched hundreds of Iranian-supplied loitering munitions (self-detonating drones) against Ukraine’s power grid. Tehran has much faster and deadlier drones and short-...

Why Armenia And Serbia Might Seek Iranian Drones

It has been an excellent year for Iranian drone exports. Tehran infamously supplied Russia with hundreds of its Shahed-136 loitering munitions (self-detonating or “suicide” drones) for use in the Ukra...

Iran May Hope To Replicate Turkey’s Success Exporting Drones. Here’s Why It Can’t.

Recent comments from top Iranian officials strongly suggest that Tehran perceives itself as a rapidly ascending arms exporter, especially of drones. In reality, Iran, at least under the incumbent regi...

Iran’s Burgeoning Arms Exports To Russia Could Be A Sign Of Desperation

Iran is exporting a record number of its domestically-produced armed drones to Russia and will soon export its indigenous ballistic missiles to Moscow. A top Iranian general has also said that 22 coun...

Why Iran Arming Russia With Drones For Ukraine War Is Utterly Cynical

Iran’s decision to supply large quantities of armed drones to Russia amidst Moscow’s ongoing war against Ukraine makes Iran an accomplice and enabler of wanton Russian aggression. The fact that Iran w...

Rival Middle East Powers Are Now Arming Both Sides Of A European War

On Sept. 13, Ukraine’s defense ministry tweeted photos of the remains of an Iranian-built Shahed-136 drone its forces had shot down over the country’s eastern Kharkiv province. The incident occurred j...

Russia Is Now Using Iranian ‘Swarming’ Attack Drones In Ukraine — Here’s What We Know

Images from Ukraine provide the first photographic evidence of Iranian-made drones used by Russia. The pictures, taken by an Ukrainian officer and posted on Twitter, appear to show the remains of a Sh...