{"id":96092,"date":"2021-06-17T06:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=96092"},"modified":"2021-06-17T06:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:44:17","slug":"auto-draft-560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/06\/17\/auto-draft-560\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Interest in Russian Satellite ‘Not Particularly Concerning’ to US Security, CENTCOM Chief Tells VOA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA \u2014 CAIRO, EGYPT – Iran\u2019s reported desire to purchase a Russian advanced satellite system is not \u201cparticularly concerning\u201d to U.S. security in the region, according to the commander who oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

In an interview with VOA, Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, said Russia\u2019s\u00a0Kanopus-V satellite is not effective at targeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou really can\u2019t do much with it,\u201d he\u00a0said. \u201cIt would probably allow them to see something the size of a school bus, which is not going to be particularly concerning to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, U.S. and Middle East officials told\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0that Iranian military officials have been deeply involved in the satellite acquisition and have made multiple trips to Russia since 2018 to work on an agreement to buy the system.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Kanopus-V is marketed for civilian use, and McKenzie said some commercial imagery options provide better visuals than what the satellite\u2019s high-resolution camera could capture.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile it might seem attractive to put it (the satellite) into space on a Russian rocket, if that’s the way they want to spend their money and do it, they should go ahead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Drone Attacks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Iranian-backed militia have continued to attack U.S. and NATO forces in Iraq with small, armed drones.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been attacked three times over the last little over a month,\u201d McKenzie said.<\/p>\n

He and other military officials have told VOA that Iran has shifted to using compact, kinetic attacks because their armed drones can cause damage to U.S. resources without amassing casualties, keeping the threat just below a level that might spark retaliation from the United\u00a0States.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0a very dangerous\u00a0path that they\u2019re on,\u201d warned McKenzie, \u201cand they\u2019re doing it because, as we should remember, they failed and their principal aim, which was a political objective of having us leave Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n

The military is still conducting forensic analysis right now to\u00a0determine\u00a0exactly where the drones used in the latest attacks on U.S. forces originated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 CAIRO, EGYPT – Iran\u2019s reported desire to purchase a Russian advanced satellite system is not \u201cparticularly concerning\u201d to U.S. security in the region, according to the commander who oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East. In an interview with VOA, Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, said Russia\u2019s\u00a0Kanopus-V satellite is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96092","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":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96092","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=96092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96095,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96092\/revisions\/96095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}