{"id":112952,"date":"2023-09-04T07:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T12:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=112952"},"modified":"2023-09-04T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T12:17:16","slug":"iran-adds-russian-combat-trainer-jets-to-air-force-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/09\/04\/iran-adds-russian-combat-trainer-jets-to-air-force-reports-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Adds Russian Combat Trainer Jets to Air Force, Reports Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 <\/span>Iran’s air force has received a batch of advanced Russian combat trainer jets to “improve the training and combat capability of the air force,” local media reported Saturday.<\/p>\n

“A number of Yak-130 training aircraft entered the country and joined the Shahid Babaei Air Base in Isfahan” in central Iran, according to Tasnim news agency.<\/p>\n

The agency, quoting the army’s public relations department, said the arrival of the Yakovlev Yak-130 came as part of the Islamic republic’s “arms contracts with the Russian Federation.”<\/p>\n

Russia and Iran are both under international sanctions that restrict trade but have over the past year forged strong ties in various sectors including military cooperation.<\/p>\n

In March, Iran announced that a deal had been reached to buy Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia.<\/p>\n

Ukraine and many of its Western allies have accused Tehran of supplying Moscow with weapons for use in its war against Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Iran has consistently denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

In May, the United States said Iran and Russia are “expanding their unprecedented defense partnership.”<\/p>\n

U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said at the time that Iran had delivered more than 400 drones to Russia since August last year.<\/p>\n

He added that Tehran was seeking to buy attack helicopters, radars and Yak-130 aircraft from Russia.<\/p>\n

Iran currently has mostly Russian MiG and Sukhoi fighter jets that date back to the Soviet era, as well as some Chinese aircraft, including the F-7.<\/p>\n

Some American F-4 and F-5 fighter jets dating back to before the 1979 Islamic Revolution are also part of its fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 Iran’s air force has received a batch of advanced Russian combat trainer jets to “improve the training and combat capability of the air force,” local media reported Saturday. “A number of Yak-130 training aircraft entered the country and joined the Shahid Babaei Air Base in Isfahan” in central Iran, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112955,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112952\/revisions\/112955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}