{"id":114763,"date":"2023-11-29T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=114763"},"modified":"2023-11-29T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:24:33","slug":"iran-finalizes-deal-to-buy-russian-fighter-jets-tasnim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/11\/29\/iran-finalizes-deal-to-buy-russian-fighter-jets-tasnim\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Finalizes Deal to Buy Russian Fighter Jets &#8211; Tasnim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p><span class=\"dateline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114764 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sukhoi-Su-35S-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sukhoi-Su-35S-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sukhoi-Su-35S-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sukhoi-Su-35S-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sukhoi-Su-35S-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sukhoi-Su-35S-48x32.jpg 48w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sukhoi-Su-35S.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES \u2014 <\/span>Iran has finalized arrangements for the delivery of Russian made Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jets and helicopters, Iran&#8217;s deputy defense minister told Iran&#8217;s Tasnim news agency Tuesday, as Tehran and Moscow forge closer military relations.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s air force has only a few dozen strike aircraft, including Russian jets as well as aging U.S. models acquired before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plans have been finalized for Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets, Mil Mi-28 attack helicopters, and Yak-130 jet trainers to join the combat units of Iran&#8217;s Army,&#8221; Iran&#8217;s deputy Defense Minister Mehdi Farahi said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tasnim report did not include any Russian confirmation of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Iran said it had started production of the locally designed Kowsar fighter for use in its air force.<\/p>\n<p>Military experts believe the jet is a carbon copy of the F-5, first produced in the United States in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES \u2014 Iran has finalized arrangements for the delivery of Russian made Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jets and helicopters, Iran&#8217;s deputy defense minister told Iran&#8217;s Tasnim news agency Tuesday, as Tehran and Moscow forge closer military relations. Iran&#8217;s air force has only a few dozen strike aircraft, including Russian jets as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114763","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\/114763","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=114763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114766,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114763\/revisions\/114766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}