Reports: Russia Struggles in Ukraine with Malfunctioning Iran-Made Drones

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : In early August, U.S. officials said Russian personnel were training in Iran to pilot drones capable of launching precision-guided missiles.
51% : ""As for our relations with Iran, as you know they are developing dynamically," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov grumbled to reporters.
48% : U.S. intelligence agencies first began warning about a possible Russian purchase of armed Iranian drones in July, an allegation buttressed by satellite images that showed Russian officials checking out Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) at an airfield south of Tehran.
47% : It also underscores warnings from critics of the ongoing negotiations for Iran to resume its compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal that the United States left in 2018.
46% : [Iran and Russia].
44% : Newsweek noted that if reliability issues can be resolved, Iran's top-of-the-line Shahed-129 - a design allegedly reverse-engineered from an American Predator drone that crashed in Iran years ago - is potentially capable of flying farther and carrying more ordnance than the Bayraktar TB2, the Turkish-made drone that performed so well against invading Russian forces that Ukrainians are singing campfire songs about them.
39% : An agreement for Iran and the US to return to the deal, which would grant Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief in return for curbs on its nuclear program, is inching forward.
29% : At the very least, it would seem awkward for the Biden administration to pump billions of dollars into Iran's war machine, only for Tehran to use some of the funds to crank out more drones for sale to Moscow so it can win the war against Ukraine that the U.S. government has so ardently denounced.
28% : Opponents of a deal say lifting sanctions on Tehran could enable Russia to strengthen its war effort in Ukraine and circumvent penalties imposed after the February invasion by funneling oil and other products through Iran.

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