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<\/a>The manager of Venezuela\u2019s drone program is an engineer who helped build ballistic missiles for Iran. The engineer\u2019s identity\u00a0raises new questions about the purposes behind Venezuela\u2019s drone program. But it\u2019s also only one part of a mystery involving drones shipped from Iran to Venezuela while hidden in secret cargo containing possibly more military hardware than just \u2018bots.<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to El Nuevo Herald<\/em>, the Spanish-language sister paper of The Miami Herald<\/em>, US officials believe Iran shipped drones to Venezuela <\/span>hidden in cargo containers<\/span><\/a>. The date and specific port are not known, but Venezuela only received six drones \u2014 in a shipment of 70 containers carrying each more than 24,000 pounds of cargo.\u00a0The cargo was camouflaged as material \u201cfrom Venirauto (Venezuelan-Iranian Automotive) through a Chilean company,\u201d a source told the newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n The containers were headed for a Venezuelan air base and the location for the M2 drone project, named after the Mohajer, a light surveillance drone manufactured by Iran.\u00a0The supervisor, Ramin Keshavarz, is member of the Revolutionary Guards and former employee of Iran\u2019s Defense Industry Organization, a firm embargoed by the United States for overseeing Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program.\u00a0The stealthy cargo, the Iranian missile engineer, and more than a million pounds of\u00a0unaccounted\u00a0weight, was not all. \u201cExcessively high\u201d amounts of money are paid for the drone program, much higher than the total cost of the \u2018bots.<\/span><\/p>\n Also under investigation is a Parchin Industries site in Mor\u00f3n,\u00a0Venezuela. Parchin is believed to make fuel for Iran\u2019s mid-range missiles and has been accused by the International Atomic Energy Agency of\u00a0<\/span>conducting explosive tests<\/span><\/a>\u00a0inside a containment chamber located in Iran. Mor\u00f3n also houses a joint Iranian-Venezuelan gunpowder factory.\u00a0Venezuela is also testing six Iranian drone models, with three under \u201cspecial suspicion\u201d for being not what they seem: the\u00a0Justiciero, Vengador and Venezolano drones. In other words, US officials believe these drones could be more than just<\/em> drones\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n