Iran Will Help Russia Set Up ‘Drone Factory’ Aimed at Bombing Ukraine as West Seeks To Disrupt Weapons Trade

Military ties between Tehran and Moscow deepen,Yanks say, as a new report indicates China is shipping drone components to Iranian manufacturers.

Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate via AP, file
An undated photograph shows the wreckage of what Kyiv has described as an Iranian Shahed drone downed near Kupiansk, Ukraine. Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate via AP, file

Iran will help the Kremlin set up a drone factory inside Russia, presenting another challenge to America as it seeks to disrupt the weapons trade between the two countries and support the Ukrainian war effort. 

That is the latest from President Biden’s National Security Council, which released on Friday intelligence indicating that Iran is providing Russia with material to set up the drone manufacturing facility in Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic Zone, several hundred miles east of Moscow.

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