WP: Russia agreed with Iran to assemble drones on its territory
According to intelligence obtained by US and Western security services, Russia reached a meeting with Iran to begin “production of hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles on Russian soil,” it is reported. Washington Post (VP).
The details of the Iranian-Russian threat were finalized at a meeting in early November, which also included a group of defense industry representatives who came to Tehran to develop logistics, WP writes, citing a security official from the two countries who are monitoring events. They are against WP on condition of anonymity.
A delegation led by Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev left for Tehran on November 9 to take part in the meeting of the commission and the Western presidency in the affairs of their governments, WP district.
NATO government officials, exposed to much intelligence, declined to discuss the details, WP reported. A representative of the US Embassy in Washington, journalists for comments by the Russian Defense Ministry, they did not respond to a request. The Iranian mission to the UN in New York declined to comment on the information. But the Iranian official admitted to reporters that Iran and Russia “supported bilateral cooperation in defense, science and research, which preceded the start of the Ukrainian conflict.”
Read more about the visit of the Russian delegation to Iran in the publication “Kommersant” “The Security Councils of the Russian Federation and Iran spoke the same language.”