Iranian Arash-2 drones
Press TV – May 16, 2025
US President Donald Trump says he asked American companies to manufacture drones similar to Iranian drones, which are not very expensive but very fast and lethal.
Trump made the remarks in Qatar on Thursday before flying on to the United Arab Emirates for the third and final leg of the tour that began in Saudi Arabia earlier this week.
“I said to one of the defense companies, ‘I need a lot of drones, and you know, Iran makes good drones, and they make them for $35,000 to $40,000,’” he said.
“So I said to that company, ‘I want to see something like that.’ Two weeks later, they came to me with a drone that cost $41 million! I said, ‘That’s not what I was talking about. Forty-one million?! I’m talking about something that costs $35,000 to $40,000, so you can fly them by the thousands,’” he said.
Iran’s massive and rapid progress in drone technology and its capabilities to carry out long-range strikes in drone warfare with a high level of accuracy have cemented the country’s growing military might in West Asia.
The cutting-edge drone program has been among the Iranian military’s breakthroughs in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous defensive equipment to make the armed forces self-sufficient in the face of years-long US threats and sanctions.
Iranian officials have repeatedly warned that the country will not hesitate to strengthen its military capabilities, including its missile power, which is entirely meant for defense, saying the Islamic Republic’s defense capabilities will never be subject to negotiations.
Speaking in Doha on Thursday, Trump also said that a nuclear deal with Iran was close that would avert what he called a military action against the Islamic Republic.
“I think we’re getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this,” he said, referring to military action.
“You probably read today the story about Iran. It’s sort of agreed to the terms,” Trump said.
The US president did not specify which remarks he was referring to.
During his visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Trump labeled Iran as the “most destructive force” in the West Asia region. He accused Iran of fueling regional instability and said the United States would not allow the country to develop a “nuclear weapon,” rebuffing Tehran’s total rejection of such non-conventional arms.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran will never bow to threats and pressure, rebuking Trump, who has accused Tehran of being a destabilizing force in the region.
Speaking on Thursday, Pezeshkian criticized the United States for pursuing double-standard policies toward Iran.
“Trump thinks that he can sanction us, threaten us, and then sit back and talk about human rights … All the crimes in the region are because of these policies and these individuals,” he said.
“We seek peace, not war. We have always been seeking to live in peace and [based on] mutual respect, both when it comes to internal issues and also in relations with our neighbors.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran had yet to receive any proposal in writing from the United States but said it stood to build trust if sanctions were lifted.
“We are ready to build trust and transparency about our nuclear program in response to the lifting of sanctions,” he said.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry also firmly rejected the pejorative remarks that had been made by the US president against the country, calling them “false, divisive, and misleading.”
The ministry condemned Trump’s accusations as an attempt to distort the realities of the region and shift blame onto Tehran.
Soon the only demand from the US will be please send us some food.
“Trump asks US companies to manufacture drones similar to Iranian drones.”
Why doesn’t Trump ask them to manufacture big beautiful Death Stars, instead of Iranian drones?
We can’t make a military drone for under $1-million, let alone manufactured drone that performs as well as what the Iranians have.
So, Trump might as well dream big; although, building a functional Death Star is no more likely than building a functional copy of an Iranian drone.
How many multi-million dollar planes did we lose to $35,000 Iranian drones? Furthermore how many of our USA drones have been hacked, hijacked, and seized by Iran? We will never know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident
At $30 mil (literally) a pop, call them Houthies terrorists or market makers, but 35 to 40k? He (‘we’) will be lucky to see bare bone drones at $1 mil, but lets see some tariffs on Iranian drones FIRST!
America under Trump is turning ever more gangster with protectionism that’s just another old-fashioned protection racket. They are now insisting other countries either go with American microchips or go with China’s–for which they’ll face secondary sanctions.
Germany is already using Huawei chips which are cheap to buy, they perform well and make efficient use of electricity because they don’t get hot and need so much cooling. Now Germany’s being threatened to use America’s Nvidia chips which are not only three times the price to buy and heavy on electricity, but the disruptions and costs of swapping the systems over will be astronomical. China should tell them stick with us until America goes down and you’ll be alright; but if you leave us then America goes down, you can’t expect favoured nation terms when you come back to us which you will do.
They must stand up to the US and say no or they’ll all go down with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_sNLZo3stk
@Trump , forget it ! you have not anymore the by jews
hated old Nazi engineers (they were to the moon , you jew
propaganda believers !) . and here in germany also we no
more have the clever engineering bastlers . only lazy consumers .
even agricultural products we get by air from china, peru, chile
or by truck from spain . we produce only cars nobody wants +
chemical/plastic to poison the world !
@MM
does not matter at all . since here in 50 years the
majority will be brown + islamic + jewish .
DO NOT PAY A TV LICENCE
do not give your money for pedophiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n_xYL7SFhY
Hello everyone Carl Jones mum here
hes such a good boy
but he wont be posting today as his bottom is so sore
he went to see those nice men who hang round the public toilets
and they did something to him, and his bum is all red and sore
I bet it was those natzis
America has the most Jews, and these say to each other things like “It costs us thirty thousand but we can add three noughts to that because people are innumerate” and the Commie Jews make sure that that is the case. They can also add three noughts to a dead-Jews calculation