US displays drones from Ukraine it says Iran made

AFP :
US military officials displayed what they said were pieces of Iranian drones recovered in Ukraine to UN member states on Thursday — evidence, according to the Pentagon, of growing ties between Iran and Russia.

The US mission to the UN said representatives from more than 40 countries attended the event, where Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials said the debris included parts of Iranian Shahed 101, Shahed 131 and Shahed 136 drones found in Ukraine.

“These are not replicas. These are the real thing,” US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said at the event, according to her office.

“These are the weapons of war that Iran has transferred to malign actors.”

She added: “Iranian officials have made no secret of their ambition to expand the sale of these attack drones. And now, they are in Russian hands, being used against civilians in Europe.”

Tehran has denied Western accusations that it is supplying Russia with large quantities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), some armed, to use in its invasion of Ukraine.