{"id":2010606,"date":"2023-08-24T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-displays-iranian-drone-found-in-ukraine-in-push-for-international-investigation\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:48:04","slug":"us-displays-iranian-drone-found-in-ukraine-in-push-for-international-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-displays-iranian-drone-found-in-ukraine-in-push-for-international-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"US showcases Iranian drone discovered in Ukraine to advocate for global inquiry."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fus-displays-iranian-drone-found-in-ukraine-in-push-for-international-investigation%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=2010606&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--><blockquote>\n<h2>An Exhibition Reveals Iranian \u2063Drones Used \u2062by Russia in Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>An offshoot \u200dof\u200d the Department of Defense\u2064 has declassified and set \u2064up a\u200b display \u200bof Iranian drones\u2062 used by\u200b Russia in Ukraine to convince global leaders to hold Tehran accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Intelligence Agency, a combat \u2064support agency of \u200bthe Pentagon, started the exhibition at the beginning of the month, \u200band \u200brepresentatives from more than \u200da dozen \u2062countries have already \u2064come to see\u2064 it, a senior analyst told a group of \u200creporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h3>Impressive \u200cEvidence<\/h3>\n<p>The display includes a nearly\u200b fully intact Shahed-131 one-way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-displays-iranian-drone-found-in-ukraine-in-push-for-international-investigation\/\" title=\"US showcases Iranian drone discovered in Ukraine to advocate for global inquiry.\">unmanned \u200caerial \u2064vehicle recovered<\/a>\u200d in\u2062 July 2021 \u2064in Karbala,\u2064 Iraq, that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps acknowledged\u2062 was its own. It also includes the\u200d wreckage of\u2064 four Shahed-131s that were found in Ukraine \u2062last fall that the DIA \u2063was able \u2064to piece together, and the \u2062exhibit is \u200bdesigned to prove\u2063 Iran&#8217;s drones \u2062are being used \u2062by Russia \u200bin\u200c Ukraine despite Tehran&#8217;s repeated denials.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the analyst took off the\u200d navigation\u2063 antenna from the \u200ddrone \u2062found in Ukraine and placed it on the same location on the\u200b drone found \u2064in Iraq. It \u200bappeared to \u200cbe a perfect fit. Both\u200b had the same \u2063honeycomb interior, in addition to having identical wing stabilizers, the analyst noted, also displaying\u200d seemingly identical\u2064 engines on each.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress and staffers are expected to visit the exhibit starting in\u200c September,\u200b while U.S. allies, neutral\u200b observers, and adversaries are able to see the \u200cexhibit\u200c upon request.<\/p>\n<h3>Seeking Accountability<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;One of our core functions is to provide information to policymakers \u200cto enable informed decision-making and governance,&#8221; Lt. Col. Robert Carter, DIA\u2062 spokesman,\u200d told the Washington \u200bExaminer. &#8220;Second to that, we \u200chave a responsibility \u200dto \u200bcounter disinformation in the public information dimension. This \u200cis \u200ban \u200benabling tool for policymakers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The agency \u2063has set up this exhibit in the DIA building&#8217;s museum partially in an attempt to convince global leaders \u200cat the \u2063United \u200bNations to investigate\u200b the matter as a violation\u200b of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which prohibits \u2063all\u200d countries, including permanent members of the\u200c Security\u2062 Council, from transferring weapons from Iran \u200dwithout\u200d advance approval from the Security \u2063Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United Nations must respond to \u200cgrowing calls from the\u200c international community to\u200b investigate these violations,&#8221; Ambassador \u2064Linda Thomas-Greenfield said\u2064 to the U.N. Security Council in June. &#8220;Look,\u2062 Resolution 2231 does give the Secretary-General a mandate \u200cto \u200ccarry out these investigations, and we have all encouraged the U.N.\u2064 to move \u200dforward on carrying out these investigations immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064United \u200dStates, United Kingdom, Ukraine, and France \u200dhave\u2063 pushed the \u200bU.N. to investigate Iran&#8217;s decision to provide Russia with\u2062 drones, though\u2062 Secretary-General\u2062 Antonio Guterres has resisted \u2063those calls.<\/p>\n<p>A U.N. investigation &#8220;would mean we have\u200c accomplished our task at hand,&#8221; Carter \u200cadded. &#8220;To present credible information to \u2064our partners, allies, and the international community \u200cand to have\u2064 them\u2064 act on that\u200c information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns and\u2062 Countermeasures<\/h3>\n<p>The Iranian \u200bShahed drones are impressive with their simplicity,\u2063 the analyst explained, noting that many components within them are \u200dcommercially available. The U.S. government \u2063has \u200battempted to warn commercial companies about \u2063the possibility their products are \u200dbeing used in\u2064 such vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia and Iran have\u200b entered into a full-scale defense partnership that is\u200b directly\u200d enabling Russia\u2019s brutal war in Ukraine.\u200c Russia is using Iranian UAVs to attack Ukrainian population centers \u200band kill Ukrainian civilians,&#8221; National \u200bSecurity Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told the Washington Examiner. &#8220;Throughout the \u200bpast year \u2062and\u2063 a half, we have \u2062used the\u2063 tools at our disposal to expose \u2064and disrupt\u2062 these activities, including by establishing \u2063extensive export restrictions on\u200c technology that\u2064 Russia can use for its \u200dwar machine and by imposing sanctions on those involved\u200c in the transfer of Iranian military equipment to Russia for use in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These drones, the Shahed-131 and the slightly larger Shahed-136, which\u2062 Russia has more frequently used \u200cin Ukraine, \u200bhave limited usage, given they\u200c are one-way attack \u200ddrones \u200cthat are cheap to \u200bproduce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Departments of Commerce,\u200d Justice, State, \u2064and Treasury also recently released\u200b a business advisory to alert companies about the risks of providing \u2063materials to Iran\u200c and to\u200b instruct companies \u200bhow they can \u2063prevent their products from being acquired by Iran for its UAV\u2062 program,&#8221;\u2063 Watson added. &#8220;As Russia searches for \u2064ways to evade our actions,\u200d the U.S. government, alongside allies and partners, will \u200ccontinue to ramp up our own efforts\u200b to counter\u2063 such evasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia \u2063is constructing \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/banks-trillions-in-climate-financing-pledges-are-a-bailout-hazard-experts-warn\/\" title=\"Banks\u2019 Trillions in Climate Financing Pledges Are a Bailout Hazard, Experts Warn\">production plant<\/a> to build its own version of the Shaheds in the \u2062Alabuga \u2064Special Economic\u2063 Zone, and\u2062 the NSC said in June it could \u2062be \u200c&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-and-russia-working-to-push-us-out-of-syria-pentagon-official-says\/\" title=\"Iran and Russia aim to oust US from Syria, says Pentagon official.\">fully operational early<\/a> next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.K.\u2019s defense ministry said last \u200dweek in an \u2062update on the war in Ukraine that \u200dRussian\u200b forces have \u201calmost certainly started to \u2062deploy domestically produced one-way attack \u2064Uncrewed Aerial \u2063Vehicles (OWA-UAVs) based\u2063 on Iranian \u200cShahed designs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conflict Armament Research, a U.K.-based \u2063organization that\u200c investigates weapons\u200c components, released a report days earlier in which it concluded the same thing. CAR was able to come \u200bto that conclusion after\u200b investigating the remnants of two \u2062Geran-2 single-use drones last\u200d month due to \u201cmajor differences in the airframe construction \u200band in the\u200d internal units, \u200dincluding for navigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither the NSC, the Pentagon, nor the DIA \u200canalyst would confirm that Russia had begun producing drones domestically, though \u2064the official noted they would use the same indicators CAR used to make such a\u200b determination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As\u2064 of May, \u2063Russia received hundreds of one-way\u200d attack UAVs, \u200cas well as \u200cUAV \u200bproduction-related equipment, from Iran,&#8221; Lt. Col. Garron Garn, a Pentagon spokesman, \u2062said in \u2064response to whether they had \u200cseen Russia start drone\u2064 production. &#8220;Russia has \u2062used\u200d Iranian UAVs to strike Kyiv \u200dand \u2064terrorize the Ukrainian population, and the Russia-Iran military \u2064partnership appears to be deepening. We noted \u200bpreviously that \u2064Russia\u2063 was\u2064 working with Iran\u2063 to produce Iranian UAVs \u200bfrom inside Russia. We have \u200binformation that Russia is receiving materials from Iran \u200dneeded to build \u200ca UAV manufacturing plant inside\u200c Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The analyst explained that even if Russia has begun\u200d making its own versions of \u2064the Shaheds, they\u2062 aren&#8217;t up to fully \u200boperational capacity \u2063\u2014\u200c and\u200d said the NSC&#8217;s previous timeline remains the working expectation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An offshoot of the Department of Defense has declassified and displayed Iranian drones used by Russia in Ukraine. The Defense Intelligence Agency, a Pentagon combat support agency, began the exhibition to urge global leaders to hold Tehran responsible. 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