The other day, US officials said that Moscow and Tehran are implementing plans to build an Iranian drone factory on Russian territory, this is the second such de facto international drone factory.. The Institute for War Research believes that the failure of Western sanctions against the supply of weapons components to Iran contributed to Russia's ability to bypass international restrictions and purchase components for combat drones from Tehran..

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The British investigative team Conflict Armament Research (CAR) reported in November 2022 that 82% of Iranian Shahed-131, Shahed 136 and Mohajer-6 drones shot down in Ukraine had chips, semiconductors and other components from the United States, despite a high level of imports. CAR also noted that the downed drones contained advanced technological capabilities and had a "

Most of the Western-made components of the downed Iranian drones were manufactured between 2020 and 2021, after the UN Security Council sanctions on heavy weapons against Iran expired in 2020.

[40] Most Western companies whose components were found in downed Iranian drones in Ukraine have denied direct sales of components to Russia, Iran or Belarus since the start of the war..

However, a representative of the Swiss manufacturing company noted that it is impossible to be completely sure that distributors of weapons components do not sell components to sanctioned entities, meaning that Russia, Iran or other countries that are subject to sanctions. , may exploit loopholes that allow them to acquire Western weapon components through proxy actors.