{"id":113457,"date":"2023-09-28T07:57:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=113457"},"modified":"2023-09-28T07:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:57:31","slug":"us-targets-iran-drone-procurement-network-accuses-it-of-aiding-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/09\/28\/us-targets-iran-drone-procurement-network-accuses-it-of-aiding-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"US Targets Iran Drone Procurement Network, Accuses It of Aiding Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113458 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/drones-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/drones-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/drones-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/drones-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/drones-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/drones-48x32.jpg 48w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/drones.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON \u2014 <\/span>The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a network it said was helping procure sensitive parts for Iran&#8217;s drone program, and accused Tehran of supplying Russia with drones to support Moscow&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The network has facilitated shipments and financial transactions in support of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps&#8217; (IRGC) procurement of a critical component used in Iran&#8217;s Shahed-136 drones, the Treasury Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the latest in a series of recent sanctions on Iran. Wednesday&#8217;s action targets entities and individuals in Iran, China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the department said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iranian-made UAVs continue to be a key tool for Russia in its attacks in Ukraine, including those that terrorize Ukrainian citizens and attack its critical infrastructure,&#8221; Treasury official Brian Nelson said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON \u2014 The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a network it said was helping procure sensitive parts for Iran&#8217;s drone program, and accused Tehran of supplying Russia with drones to support Moscow&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. The network has facilitated shipments and financial transactions in support of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113457","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\/113457","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=113457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113460,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113457\/revisions\/113460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}