{"id":262241,"date":"2022-12-10T07:41:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T07:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262241"},"modified":"2022-12-11T08:41:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T08:41:49","slug":"russia-to-send-iran-top-fighter-jets-in-return-for-kamikaze-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262241","title":{"rendered":"Russia to send Iran top fighter jets in return for kamikaze drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Josie Ensor \u2013 The Telegraph Dec 9, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_112543\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Russian-Sudash35S-FlankerdashE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112543\" class=\"wp-image-112543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Russian-Sudash35S-FlankerdashE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-112543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian Su-35S Flanker-E.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Iran is to receive top-of-the-range fighter jets from Russia \u201cwithin the next year\u201d in exchange for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/11\/20\/moscow-strikes-deal-iran-build-kamikaze-drones-russian-soil\/\">the kamikaze drones sent to the battlefield in Ukraine<\/a>, US sources said on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street and the White House warned that the new &#8220;sordid deals&#8221; amount to a &#8220;large scale military partnership&#8221; between Tehran and Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The US later warned that Russia was expanding and modernizing its nuclear arsenal, already the largest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is planning to send Tehran advanced military equipment and components, including helicopters and air defence systems, US intelligence sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden administration officials said Iranian pilots were already being trained in Russia on how to fly the Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet, indicating Iran \u201cmay begin receiving the aircraft within the next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has swirled that Moscow may redirect some 24 SU-35 jets currently grounded in Russia after an Egyptian order for them was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The fighter jets would represent a significant modernisation of Iran&#8217;s aging air force and would increase the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/12\/24\/israel-accuses-iran-nuclear-blackmail-asks-west-devise-credible\/\">threat posed by Iran across the Middle East and to Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It came as the Ministry of Defence said on Friday that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/10\/17\/how-iranian-kamikaze-drones-could-help-turn-tide-war-russias\/\">new Iranian drones were appearing in Ukraine<\/a>, causing fresh havoc on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said the Iran-Russia relationship is transforming into \u201ca full-fledged defence partnership&#8221; with weapons and military expertise flowing in both directions, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/russia-to-send-iran-top-fighter-jets-in-return-for-kamikaze-drones\/ar-AA156gZH\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this goes ahead it will dramatically alter the military balance of power in the Middle East. Meaning that Israel may try to strike Iran BEFORE the delivery date<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262246,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262241\/revisions\/262246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}