Iran’s attacks are finally bringing a spotlight on its deadly drones
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The Iranian attack on a ship off the coast of Oman has had the affect of spotlighting Iran’s use of deadly kamikaze drones. Iran's drone program has now been singled out by Israel and the US in statements this week. This is more important than it may appear because Iran has quietly built up a drone army over the last several years and has been sending drones and drone technology to Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Iranian drone parts have been flooding the region for years and are now used in attacks by Hamas against Israel, the Houthis against Saudi Arabia, Kataib Hezbollah against US forces in Iraq and also in Syria against ISIS, in Iraq against Kurds, and in Syria against Israel.
Iran is a drone power in the region. But this often goes underreported because Iran uses them sparingly and mostly is in the business of bragging about its drone abilities. It outsources attacks to proxies and partners. The drone is a good weapon for plausible deniability because it’s hard to know where it came from or who operated it. You may not have a radar that tells you where it took off. You won’t have visuals necessarily. So it is a perfect weapon for Iran’s model of policy mafia-like behavior in the region.
Back in 2020 Conflict Armament Research, a research group, warned about how Iran’s drone parts had been found in some eight countries. A map CAR produced at the time showed components spread across the region where these drones have been shot down or crashed. At The Jerusalem Post, we noted at the time “in 2012 an Iranian Ababil-3 was downed in Sudan’s South Kordofan. A similar gyroscope was found in an Ababil-3 in Iraq provided to an Iranian-backed group. Other components were found in Bahrain and also a Shahed-141 UAV downed in Israel in February 2018. That drone had flown from Syria. In Yemen and Saudi Arabia numerous drones and components have been documented. This means that Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Israel, Iraq, Syria and even Afghanistan have been targeted by these Iranian-linked drones or groups using components linked to them. In Afghanistan, for instance, a V9 gyroscope was found on a Shahed-123 drone that was downed in Afghanistan in a 2016 crash.”
The US went a step further and created the Iran Materials Display in Washington to showcase Iranian missiles and drones. The display includes, the US says, the “remains of a Shahed-123 unmanned aerial vehicle are seen at the Iranian Materiel Display at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 2018. The Department of Defense established the Iranian Materiel Display in December 2017 to present evidence that Iran is arming dangerous groups with advanced weapons, spreading instability and conflict in the region. The IMD contains materiel associated with Iranian proliferation into Yemen, Afghanistan and Bahrain.” READ MORE
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