Russia Recives Around 400 Ballistic Missiles From Iran
“There is no reason to hide it. We are allowed to export weapons to any country that we wish to.”
Lovely.
Iran and Russia are strengthening their relationship:
Iran’s provision of around 400 missiles includes many from the Fateh-110 family of short-range ballistic weapons, such as the Zolfaghar, three Iranian sources said. This road-mobile missile is capable of striking targets at a distance of between 300 and 700 km (186 and 435 miles), experts say.
Iran’s defence ministry and the Revolutionary Guards – an elite force that oversees Iran’s ballistic missile programme – declined to comment. Russia’s defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The shipments began in early January after a deal was finalised in meetings late last year between Iranian and Russian military and security officials that took place in Tehran and Moscow, one of the Iranian sources said.
An Iranian military official – who, like the other sources, asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the information – said there had been at least four shipments of missiles and there would be more in the coming weeks. He declined to provide further details.
Another senior Iranian official said some of the missiles were sent to Russia by ship via the Caspian Sea, while others were transported by plane.
Another official said Iran will send even missiles to Iran in the future.
“There is no reason to hide it,” boasted the official. “We are allowed to export weapons to any country that we wish to.”
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I have but one question based on my limited knowledge of Mideast politics….how quickly will this situation eascalate?
What you expecting Brandon the pedophile to do something about it?
Its in escalation right now…
The West is in hot war with Iran by it proxies; Hezbollah, Houthi’s, Hamas and ISIS.
Iran’s islamic state paid terrorist groups.
escalate. ADD types should preview!
Why can’t russia produce their own weapons? Russia believes their own technology is inferior to Iran’s technology? Russia can’t supply its own military?
It’s not like there isn’t some historical precedent for this. At the outset of WWII, the Soviets put into battle equipment that was from WWI.
But, it’s likely that the sanctions against Russia have clearly hurt their ability (at least to some degree) to manufacture things, including their own weapons systems. I suspect that if you took apart one of their guided missiles or smart bombs that were made before 2020, you’ll find a surprising number of components that were made in the west, even in the US.
There was a report just yesterday about a DPRIK-manufactured missile (sold to Russia) that was recovered largely intact in Ukraine. It was full of western component parts.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-20/north-korean-missile-made-with-us-european-parts-report-says?srnd=fixed-income
When you have more money (oil/gas) than time or stamina, sometimes it makes good economic sense to contract out some of the household chores. A lesson I have earned with age.
America paid for those missiles
Correct. And, a very compelling argument can be made that with the America-last energy policy Biden adopted on day one of his tenure – literally within the first several hours of taking the Oath of Office – we’ve largely finance the Russian efforts in this war as well.
When oil was at $45/barrel, Russia didn’t have the money to invade other countries.
Via narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama’s, pallets of cash shipped clandestinely, in the dead of night, and, crime boss Biden’s unfreezing of sundry cash accounts.
Despicable and indefensible dhimmitude and enabling of a transparently evil and malignant Islamofascist regime.
it’s a game of Risk to the liberal interventionists
let’s try sitting a few out for change
I was browsing some history books and apparently we funded the Soviet take-over of eastern Europe with the lend lease weapons we sent to the rooskies in WWII.
I think Biden must have been using that play-sheet with abandoning all the gear in Afghanistan.
If the Taliban were smart, they’d be selling it all around town.
I see the middle east and the former Soviet bloc in more and more warfare by summer. Then, the Democrats will blow the dust off that old campaign slogan, “This is no time to be changing horses mid-stream!”.
The only problem for them is that Eastern Europe doesn’t want to play along.
That and that the occupant of the WH is no horse. Hee haw!
that doesn’t hunt when your candidate is headed for the glue factory
Joe’s not even a sham
I guess Joe picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue… 🙂
“But your horse has Mad Horse Disease.”
“There is no B-3 bomber.”
The really sad part of this is understanding that we arrived to this geopolitical situation by deliberate policy choices. In the immediate post Soviet era the US/UK decided to put their focus on bringing China into the ‘world community’. They deliberately chose China and deliberately rejected Russia.
Here we are 3 decades later and we have expanded NATO up to Russia’s borders instead of bringing them into the fold. Meanwhile how’s that bet on China as a responsible member of the world community of Nations going?
Keep that in mind the next time the neocon establishment yells you we ‘must send $ or must send Troops or must do…..’ damn near anything. The same cabal of State Dept and Intel folks along with a host of academics had spent decades becoming ‘experts’ on the Soviets. They needed the Russians to be the boogeyman or their previous effort was for naught with the end of the Soviet Era. By insisting on the choice of China instead of Russia and series of policy errors in the decades since they brought us here.
The thinking was that China was the last serious commie threat. “Bringing them into the world community” was a dogwhistle for enmeshing them into the global economy and neutering them by making them dependent on capitalist resources. No reason to bother with Russia, since they had just neutered themselves. But enmeshing is a two-edged sword, and the “damn clever Chinese” found a way to make capitalist economies dependent on their slave labor so THEY could call the tune.
I’m guessing that Tucker Carlson and the Trump supporters here are good with this.
We see it as the obvious unintended consequence of the policies of liberals, RINOs, and neocons such as yourself.
Realize that we did nothing to enable this — staging a coup in Ukraine so the bear could be deliberately poked; blaming the Russians for election meddling and collaboration; pushing Ukraine for NATO membership — no, this was all you. And now we all have to reap it.
‘m guessing that you’re wrong as usual. Hog Farmer.
It isn’t hard to be dispassionate about a conflict between two Eastern European tyrants. We don’t have a dog in this fight despite the many neocon establishment grifters who desperately pretend otherwise. Kindly spare us the warmed over domino theory arguments that if Russia takes the eastern portion of Ukraine that all of Western Europe or the Baltic Nations are next.
I hope Putin realizes that these are Muslim-Quality™ Missiles — just transporting them sets nearly half of them off.
If gas pipelines can ‘spontaneously’ detonate, I wonder how many shiploads of quality Iranian missiles will likewise experience a quality control event en route.
Mr. Phelps is gonna have to find something more flexible than a rental yacht.
So, we’re funding arms for both sides of this conflict.
I don’t mean selling arms to, which while perhaps amoral can make a kind off profiteering sense. We’re *paying for* the arms on both sides, which makes us the mark.
IMO the real ‘marks’ are the conscripts of both Ukraine and Russia doing the fighting and the dying while neocons of the US the UK and EU refuse to admit the inevitable conclusion that Ukraine has already lost.
The best Ukraine can hope for is a negotiated peace with the territory it currently controls intact. Refusing to acknowledge this will prolong the killing and reduce the amount of territory held by Ukraine at the end of this conflict.
It will get REALLY interesting if US troops are sent over to fight in the middle of that quagmire. Our soldiers will be dying because of weapons we helped to supply.
Tragically, not a first. We armed the Taliban/mujahideen, too.
An excellent observation!
Only Brandon could arms traffic and LOSE money at it.
1. Glad the coverage this time has been correct, there is nothing illegal about the Iranian export, American law ends at our borders.
2. I hope that the pipeline trouble Iran had did come from Israel and significantly more, and significantly more effective attacks are coming because legal is not the same as moral.
3. Russia manufactures a lot of ballistic missiles, if it is using them up so quickly it is worth importing from Iran than it really does lack competence in military matters considering what it is achieving on the ground to say the least is somewhat lackluster.
And by this, you mean controlling approximately twice as much of Ukraine as they originally went there to “liberate?”
To judge by what Putin “annexed” they originally went in for a minimum of Donbass, Zaphorizhia, and Kherson. So at a minimum they have failed to achieve their minimum objectives (and November saw a massive amount of Russian casualties to pay for this non-success).
If Russia needs these 400 Iranian ballistic missiles it means the amount they are firing on Ukraine not to achieve their objectives is truly gargantuan yet they are failing to achieve even their minimum objectives.
For comparison Russia needing these 400 missiles would mean Russia is destroying significantly more Ukrainian targets than the United States did to Iraqi targets in the First Gulf War.
They are not getting First Gulf War results however which tells me their commanders don’t know what targets to destroy, how to use their troops to take advantage of destruction or both.
Or maybe Russia is just ordering these missiles to stimulate the growth of the Iranian War Machine, but would Putin really be that stupid? Russians across Russia are paying for food, rent, utilities and taxes with nothing left over to save leaving them vulnerable to any further economic decline. Is he dumb enough to follow Nicholas II in publicly mismanaging Russia during war time? If he isn’t he is destroying more Ukrainian targets than we did Iraqi targets in the First Gulf War yet isn’t achieving anything.
so the obama biden gift ( to iran) that keeps on giving and giving
to world destruction
obama armed the mexi drug cartels and the msm ///gop couldnt care less
col north was a “criminal” for arming freedom fighters
lefty always winning 🙁