White House Says Iran Helping Russia Build Drone Factory

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% :Iran is seeking to purchase additional military equipment from Russia, including attack helicopters, radars, and YAK-130 combat trainer aircraft, the White House said.
50% : Iran is providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant east of Moscow, according to a U.S. intelligence finding released by the White House on Friday.
50% : U.S. intelligence estimates that not only hundreds of operational one-way attack drones have been shipped from Iran to Russia since May, but drone-production-related equipment as well.
48% : According to U.S. officials, Iran has continued to supply Russia with one-way attack drones made in Iran, shipped via the Caspian Sea, from Amirabad in Iran to Makhachkala, Russia, to be used in Ukraine.
48% :Additional guidelines would be announced to help businesses and other governments to avoid inadvertently contributing to Iran's drone program as a follow-up to recent rules issued by the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom designed to cut off the flow of drone components to Russia and Iran.
46% : Iran admitted that it had provided drones to Russia before the start of the war but denies having sent any since.
42% : In April, Iran announced that it had finalized a deal to buy Su-35 fighter jets from Russia.
41% : Last month, the White House said Russia was looking to buy additional advanced attack drones from Iran after using up most of the 400 drones it had previously purchased from Tehran.
37% : In October last year, Iran also agreed to sell Russia surface-to-surface missiles, but White House officials have said they do not have evidence that a deal was made.
22% :The Biden administration stated in December that it suspected Iran and Russia were considering building a drone assembly line for the war in Ukraine.

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