On January 5 of this year, an Iranian delegation arrived in the city of Yelabuga, located regarding 960 kilometers east of Moscow on the banks of the Kama River. The delegation was complex From Brigadier-General Abdullah Marabi Brig. Gen. Abdollah Mehrabi, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization, and Magasham Damavandin Ghassem Damavandian, head of the IRGC’s aviation industry, the chief executive of Iran’s Quds Aviation Industry, Known as the Iranian body that produces suicide drones.
The Russian officers who met the Iranian delegation told their friends Because the Russian army is now looking for ways to build a suicide drone that is faster and quieter than the Shahed-136 drone that Iran is supplying today to the Russian army in Ukraine. The Russian officers explained to their Iranian counterparts that out of a thousand suicide drones that Russia has provided so far, 540 were shot down by the Ukrainian air defense. According to the Russians, the new advanced drone should assure them that the number of casualties will not be so high.
Just one day following this Russian-Iranian meeting, On January 6, the United States imposed sanctions on Megasham Damavandin Ghassem Damavandian, Like the man in charge of the production and delivery of Iranian suicide drones to the Russian army in Ukraine.
American intelligence sources report, In a meeting on January 5, Russia agreed with Iran that the new factory for the production of more advanced Iranian drones will be established in Bilaboga Yelabuga, And will be part of the $1 billion military agreement agreed upon between Moscow and Tehran. It was also agreed between Tehran and Moscow that the new factory would produce 6,000 advanced suicide drones. The estimate of the schedule needed to produce thousands of these suicide drones was not provided.
The Russian-Iranian agreement to produce thousands of new advanced suicide drones should be of great concern not only to the United States but also to Israel. As part of the military agreements between Iran and Russia, the Russians undertook to send Russian weapons experts and engineers to instruct the Iranian military in the use of the Western weapons systems that fell into their hands in Ukraine. In other words, The Iranians will also be instructed in the use of the anti-aircraft systems, including the American ones sent to the Ukrainian army.