An Iranian photographer who travelled to Russia in search of work says he was coerced into joining the Russian army and sent to fight in Ukraine, pro-Kyiv media outlet UNITED24 Media reported, citing an interview with the 34-year-old man.
Western militaries and defense firms are racing to develop low-cost attack drones modelled on Iran’s Shahed after the weapon’s use in Ukraine showed how mass-produced unmanned aerial vehicles can overwhelm air defenses, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Iranian-designed Shahed drones now manufactured in Russia are overwhelming Ukraine’s air defenses and increasing the success rate of attacks, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally submitted the comprehensive strategic partnership treaty with Iran to the State Duma for ratification, a significant step in the deepening ties between Moscow and Tehran.
Poland helped put an Iranian Shahed-136 drone on display in Washington and the United Nations to expose Tehran's destabilizing activities, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski told Iran International, dismissing the Islamic Republic's objections.
Russia launched 267 attack drones overnight on Saturday, marking the largest single assault since the use of Iranian-made projectiles began following Russia's war on Ukraine.
A clandestine factory in Russia is significantly scaling up production of Iranian-designed drones for use in the Ukraine war, according to a CNN investigation.
New Zealand has announced new sanctions against Iranian actors supplying military support to Russia, coinciding with a week in which Moscow set a record for deploying Iranian drones to strike civilian targets in Ukraine.
Russian forces unleashed their most extensive Iranian drone offensive against Ukraine overnight, damaging critical infrastructure across the country.
President-elect Donald Trump's administration will focus more on Iran, a top potential security official said on Tuesday, and will aim to render the Islamic Republic less financially capable of aiding Russia and US adversaries in the Middle East.
For the second night in a row, Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and other regions with multiple waves of Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drone attacks.
Iran did not include mobile launchers with the close-range ballistic missiles that Washington last week accused Tehran of delivering to Russia for use against Ukraine, Reuters reported on Saturday citing three sources with knowledge of the matter.
The G7 foreign ministers and the EU High Representative have condemned Iran's export of ballistic missiles to Russia, calling it an escalation in Tehran’s support for Moscow's war against Ukraine.
Ukraine's foreign ministry announced on Friday that since September 2022, Russia has launched 8,060 Iranian-made Shahed 136 suicide drones at Ukraine, as news of Iran’s missile deliveries to Russia dominated headlines this week.
Iranian short-range missiles newly delivered to Russia will enable it to hit frontline Ukrainian targets with better precision and free up existing weaponry for attacks farther into the country, Britain’s Defense Ministry said Friday.
Russian president Vladimir Putin and senior defence official Sergei Shoigu received Iran’s national security council chief Ali Akbar Ahmadian in St. Petersburg on Thursday in a sign of deepening ties between the heavily sanctioned powers.
Iran, North Korea and Russia are part of an entente increasingly coordinating in Moscow's war in Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Wednesday, a day after new Western sanctions were imposed on the Islamic Republic over alleged missile transfers to Russia.
The US and its allies - France, Germany, and Britain - said Tuesday they were targeting Iran’s flagship airline, Iran Air, in the West’s latest round of sanctions, following Tuesday’s confirmation that Tehran has supplied Russia with short-range ballistic missiles.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who will jointly visit Kyiv this week, said on Tuesday they are united on the need to tackle Iran's influence in the Middle East and Ukraine.
Ukraine's foreign ministry summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires Monday to warn Tehran against the consequences of ballistic missile shipments to Russia.
A former Iranian MP and commentator Heshmatollah Falhatpisheh has called Iran's latest arms sales to Russia "the dirtiest example of Russophilia" as Iran gets ever closer to its allies in Moscow.
Iran is set to deliver ballistic missiles to Russia "imminently", Bloomberg reported on Monday, amid warnings by Ukraine's allies that the shipment will have serious consequences for the Islamic Republic.