{"id":1843534,"date":"2023-02-11T11:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T16:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1843534"},"modified":"2023-02-11T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T16:53:35","slug":"iran-intel-official-china-in-line-to-purchase-tehrans-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-intel-official-china-in-line-to-purchase-tehrans-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Intel Official: China in Line to Purchase Tehran\u2019s Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-intel-official-china-in-line-to-purchase-tehrans-drones%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1843534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2023-02\/220712_iranian_drones_display_GettyImages-1230436329-e1657641564674%20copy.jpg?h=1d34674f&#038;itok=VMaL9hr6\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>According to a senior official from Iran Intelligence Ministry, China is among the 90 countries listed. &#8220;queuing up&#8221; Buy a URL=&#8221;https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2022\/10\/takeaway-iranian-drones-ukraine-send-message-west&#8221;>Iran-made drones<\/a>According to Wednesday&#8217;s report from the moderate Entekhab news agency,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comment was made during a book-unveiling ceremony at Imam Khomeini University, Qazvin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our power has grown to levels where China is waiting in line to buy 15,000 of our drones,&#8221; Declared the official, who was also identified in the report as director of the Intelligence Ministry\u2019s Think Tank for Political Research.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s senior adviser thanked him for his support. &#8220;look to the east&#8221; Ayatollah Ali Khanei, Supreme Leader, advocates a policy that calls for an increase in ties with Russia and China as a long-term strategy against terrorism. &#8220;Western hegemony&#8221; \u2022 Reduce the severity of sanctions against the Islamic Republic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to intelligence, the eastward approach paid off as it tilted the balance of global power in Iran\u2019s favor and to the West&#8217;s disadvantage. &#8220;And the Ukraine war is an example,&#8221; He stated that, without explaining whether it was confirmation of Iran&#8217;s cooperation in war with Russia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has been subject to constant pressure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2022\/12\/iran-says-western-claims-show-effectiveness-its-drones\">Western <\/a>criticism\u00a0over its siding with and arming of Moscow in the conflict. Iran&#8217;s delivery of combat drones has been the subject of intense scrutiny. The West accuses Tehran that it shipped them in order to be used in the conflict. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2023\/02\/new-us-sanctions-target-irans-drone-supply-russia\">Russia&#8217;s deadly operations<\/a>. These deliveries are denied by the Iranian authorities, who only admit that some were exported before the conflict began.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" scoped>\n*\/\n<\/style>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Thursday report that Iran upgraded the Russian drones to levels designed to destroy the Ukrainian infrastructure added to the growing evidence. The report was based on jointly-produced findings by Conflict Armament Research, UK, and the Ukrainian military.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has yet not addressed the latest accusation. It was made just four days following a Wall Street Journal report that revealed that Iran had helped set up a factory in Russia, where approximately 6,000 Iranian-designed drones were being manufactured.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a senior official from Iran Intelligence Ministry, China is among the 90 countries listed. &#8220;queuing up&#8221; Buy a URL=&#8221;https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2022\/10\/takeaway-iranian-drones-ukraine-send-message-west&#8221;>Iran-made dronesAccording to Wednesday&#8217;s report from the moderate Entekhab news agency,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The comment was made during a book-unveiling ceremony at Imam Khomeini University, Qazvin.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Our power has grown to levels where China is waiting in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1843537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4501,7237,7526,3823,4808,5384,18377],"class_list":["post-1843534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-china","tag-drones","tag-intel","tag-iran","tag-official","tag-purchase","tag-tehrans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}