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iranintl – Despite global sanctions, Iran has imported at least $236 million worth of aircraft and drone engine parts over the past 10 years from countries including Turkey, the UAE, Germany and even Ukraine and the US.  Data by the Islamic Republic’s customs organization, scrutinized by Iran International, show that around $26 million worth of items listed as prohibited under the US …

iranintl – Documents filed by the son of Iran’s Parliamentary Speaker for immigration to Canada reveal that he has hundreds of thousands of dollars in Iranian and foreign banks, Iran International can exclusively reveal. “I declare that the Account Number 380.8000.13637806.2 (in Iran’s Pasargad Bank) is under my name… and I can spend or transfer 50% of the available balance (12,394,806,106 rials equivalent of $295,114) …

Iranwire – Over recent weeks, the United States and Israel have been conducting an undeclared war against Iranian assets in Syria. Amid growing tensions, however, both Washington and Tehran have stated their intention to avoid a full-scale conflict. Dozens of US and Israeli airstrikes have targeted senior Iranian-backed military leaders, heavy weapon storage locations and other Iranian interests in Syria …

Iranwire – US authorities have charged a leader of Japan’s Yakuza organized crime syndicate with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to Iran. Takeshi Ebisawa, a 60, and his co-defendant Somphop Singhasiri, 61, “trafficked in drugs, weapons, and nuclear material – going so far as to offer uranium and weapons-grade plutonium fully expecting that Iran would use it for …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran has provided Russia with around 400 surface-to-surface ballistic missiles since the beginning of the year, Reuters reported on February 21, amid a burgeoning military partnership between Moscow and Tehran. Many of the supplied missiles were from the Fateh-110 family of short-range ballistic weapons, such as the Zolfaghar, three Iranian sources told the news …