Iran’s domestically produced Shahed drone
Press TV – April 16, 2026
The deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says Iran increased the production rate of attack drones tenfold during a seven-month period after the US-Israeli war in June last year.
Speaking in a television interview published on Thursday, Brigadier General Alireza Sheikh said Iran has succeeded in making a significant increase in its drone capabilities.
He added that the Iranian Armed Forces are prepared for any possible scenario in the future by learning from the past events.
The Armed Forces’ capabilities to confront and respond to threats and to prevent the enemy from achieving its goals are a direct result of the lessons learned from the 12-day war backed in June 2025, he emphasized.
The senior Army commander pointed to Iran’s “very extensive” strategic achievements and said, “Today, we can say that the Islamic Republic of Iran has created a new literature in the field of defense and security.”
Sheikh reiterated that Iran’s great achievements in the field of drones disrupted the enemy’s defense equations in a way that “our pinpoint missiles accurately hit their targets.”
“This means military creativity which is the art of combining multiple and different components to create an effective and powerful entirety,” he explained.
Pointing to the latest round of talks between Iran and the United States in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad last week, he said according to the law of power, the two sides come to the negotiating table when they are on a par.
“The fact that we have brought the enemy to the negotiating table to talk about our requests and demands is by itself a great victory,” Sheikh added.
He emphasized that the enemy will realize the balance of power when it compares what it claimed at the beginning of the war in late February with the topics discussed at the negotiating table.
The US and the Israeli regime launched a large-scale unprovoked military aggression against Iran following the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, along with several senior military commanders and civilians on February 28. The aggression also included strikes on nuclear facilities, schools, hospitals and civilian infrastructure.
Iran’s Armed Forces responded with 100 waves of retaliatory strikes under Operation True Promise 4, launching hundreds of ballistic and hypersonic missiles, as well as drones, against American military bases across West Asia and Israeli positions throughout the occupied territories.
i am glad iran are still defending them selves
Morrisons job cuts put 200-plus roles at risk
Morrisons plans to cut 200+ head office roles amid cost-saving, consultations
for more job losses now under way.
They blame anti semitism over the genocides
The UK supermarkets are not in competition as claimed they are one big cartel
Rothschild and Oppenhiemer own the cartels
They are all suffering as is Starbucks, because of the boycott of jewish business
This has been good for the Coop who have stopped israeli imports
most of which is grown on palestinian land
The only power we have to object, is through our wallets
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Midway through the “war”, i-ran pulled out a million “drones”.
When people say the war is fake, this is what they mean. Are you having a war – a real war – with your neighbour, if you lob tins of beans at his house?
By the way, presstv had an article yesterday telling you a total of 170 academics had been killed during the “war”. Then they went on to tell you about 120 in one place, 25 in another, and so on. What’s the problem with that statement? Go on, I’ll give you time to think about it…
Huge demonstration to shut the Zionist embassy, divest, sanction, boycott in London
Cabinet War Room, London, England – April 17 2026: A weekly Friday demonstration is usually held at the Israel Embassy. IJAN demonstrates to shut the Zionist embassy: divest, sanction, boycott—because Gaza is starving, airstrikes continue, the UN calls the situation catastrophic with children hungry and hospitals destroyed, and the world cannot look away while those responsible must be held accountable under international law outside Cabinet War Room, Whitehall, London, UK. (Video by 李世惠/See Li/Picture Capital