And if this is true?
A LOT of people should be worried…..
A heavily armed Iran would spell trouble for that country’s citizens, the Middle East and elsewhere …..
Details of Iran’s request were released by the Biden administration Friday as part of an intelligence assessment describing deepening military ties between Moscow and Tehran. The assessment confirms previous reports about plans by the two countries to build a production facility for Iranian-designed attack drones inside Russia, giving Moscow greater domestic capacity to produce unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, for use in airstrikes against Ukrainian cities….
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The White House also released a map depicting what officials said was the supply route for Iranian UAVs heading toward Russian launch sites to the north and east of Ukraine. According to the map, drones are shipped from northern Iran across the Caspian Sea to the Russian port of Makhachkala, and then overland to a pair of Russian military bases near the Ukrainian frontier…..
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The new assessment shed further light on Iran’s asks. Among the equipment sought were additional combat and trainer aircraft, as well as attack helicopters, air defense systems, military radars and militarily sensitive electronics, equipment totaling in the “billions of dollars,” Kirby said. The assessment did not reveal which systems Russia had agreed to deliver, or were perhaps already in the pipeline.
Such advanced weapons, if provided, could greatly augment Iran’s military capability across of array of potential battlefields, from the Syrian-Israeli border to western Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. The weapons systems could also present new challenges to U.S. and Israeli military commanders in the event of a future attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities.