Russia to send Iran top fighter jets in return for kamikaze drones
Iran is to receive top-of-the-range fighter jets from Russia “within the next year” in exchange for the kamikaze drones sent to the battlefield in Ukraine, US sources said on Friday night. | Downing Street and the White House warned that the new "sordid deals" amount to a "large scale military partnership" between Tehran and Moscow. The US later warned that Russia was expanding and modernizing its nuclear arsenal, already the largest in the world. Russia is planning to send Tehran advanced military equipment and components, including helicopters and air defence systems, US intelligence sources said. Biden administration officials said Iranian pilots were already being trained in Russia on how to fly the Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet, indicating Iran 💬 “may begin receiving the aircraft within the next year.”