On August 9, Russia will launch the Khayyam satellite on behalf of Iran from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which Tehran needs in order to spy on military targets in the Middle East. But it is assumed that during the first few months Moscow will use it for its own military interests in Ukraine in order to strengthen the intelligence potential, which suffers losses due to the destruction of UAVs by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Washington Post writes about this, citing representatives of the American intelligence services..

According to the source, the Iranian satellite has a high-resolution camera, but is still inferior in this indicator to American and Israeli reconnaissance satellites.. Khayyam is also capable of pointing the camera at specific objects..

It is noted that US intelligence agencies are closely monitoring the development of the Iranian satellite program.. They believe that Iran plans to use a new device to monitor Israel and the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf..

Interestingly, both the Russian embassy in Washington and representatives of the Joe Biden administration refused to comment on the information about the alternating use of the Iranian satellite by the Kremlin and Tehran..

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