Drone debris found in Ukraine indicates Russia is using new technology from Iran

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Last week, Ukrainian drone hunters picking up the debris from Russia’s nightly assault on their cities found a weapon that stood out from the rest.

It had an advanced camera, a computing platform powered by artificial intelligence and a radio link, allowing an operator to pilot it remotely from Russia. It also contained new, Iranian-made, anti-jamming technology, according to a Ukrainian drone expert.

Most Russian attack drones are black, said Serhii Beskrestnov, an electronics expert more widely known as Flash. The new one, he told The Associated Press, was white.

Inside, there were no markings or labels consistent with Russian-made drones. Instead, the stickers followed a “standard Iran labeling system,” Beskrestnov said.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-iran-drones-shahed-ukraine-israel-strikes-3ddeb853845f0ea5f81878165af07bfd

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1. Smart to get involved in the Middle East, where the enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Hope that this disaster takes down all four rats.


So, here's the kicker.
Despite cooperation, Russia and Iran appear at odds.

A dozen knives in the back of the Islamic revolution: Secret FSB documents confirm Iran and Russia are waging a spy war against each other
https://theins.press/en/inv/282473

The strikes on Iran by Israel and the U.S. provoked a critical but very restrained response from the Kremlin. On June 23, Vladimir Putin said the attack was “unjustifiable and inexcusable,” but his criticism of both the U.S. and Israel was very cautious, and it appears that Russia's support for Iran won’t go beyond those words. This is not surprising: as documents from the FSB’s counterintelligence service obtained by The Insider show, despite the apparent rapprochement with Tehran, relations between Russia and Iran are fraught with mutual distrust, and both countries continue to actively spy on one another. Sources in the Russian intelligence services maintain that, despite the rapprochement, Russia still views Iran more as an enemy than an ally and does not want to allow Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons.

Good buddies when we're not bitter enemies?

Trump has always tried to play both sides of many arguments.
This is an area where nobody wins.


And then again:
Operation “Cutter” and gold bars: How Iran became the hub of Russian espionage in the Middle East
https://theins.press/en/inv/279304

Following the rapid collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime this past December, Russia’s primary espionage hub in the Middle East shifted from Syria to Iran. However, Moscow’s deepening ties with Tehran had already begun in 2022, as evidenced by a surge in flights to Iran by Russian intelligence operatives. The Insider has uncovered who runs the GRU’s residency in Tehran, which banks and shipping companies profit from the supply of combat drones bringing death to Ukraine, and why Russian spies in Iran owe their drinks to the FSB’s Fifth Service.

Is that a pat on the back or a knife?