• Mickey7@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I wonder where they are getting the money for weapons. I thought there were economic sanctions imposed on them. Or did I miss something and were they lifted?

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      7 months ago

      Iran builds them. Iran has supplied Russia with a ton of them to use against Ukraine, if you’ve been following the conflict there – cheap, long-range drones are something theylve specialized in.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

      For components that they can’t build, they’ll do stuff like have someone buy stuff in some other country, move it into Iran from there.

      There was some discussion about them using motors built by an Irish lawnmower motor company a while back, that I recall, for one particular instance.

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      7 months ago

      drones are pretty cheap as far a weapons go, Iran is a pretty big country with a fair bit of economic potential all on its own, and sanctions can only do so much, especially when theyve been in place for a long time such that the target has had time to work around or adapt to them

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      7 months ago

      I’m pretty sure the sanctions don’t apply in North Korea, Russia, China, and any other “non western” country. They can still do business with them all the same.