EXCLUSIVE: Several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year as Tehran deepened its defence cooperation with Moscow, a Reuters review of travel records and employment data indicates. - ThreadSky

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pearswick.press • 2 days ago

EXCLUSIVE: Several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year as Tehran deepened its defence cooperation with Moscow, a Reuters review of travel records and employment data indicates.

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sutherla.bsky.social•2 days ago

Soon they will be visiting the US

warriorprince.bsky.social•1 day ago

America may be doing that next year with Moscow if no one stops the sh*tshow we're all experiencing.

waschelle.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s problematic.

pearswick.press•2 days ago

The seven weapons experts were booked to travel from Moscow to Tehran aboard two flights on April 24 and September 17 last year, according to documents detailing the two group bookings as well as the passenger manifest for the second flight.

pearswick.press•2 days ago

Their flights to Tehran came at a precarious time for Iran, which found itself drawn into a tit-for-tat battle with arch-foe Israel that saw both sides mount military strikes on each other in April and October.

pearswick.press•2 days ago

The flight booking information for the seven travellers was shown to Reuters by Hooshyaran-e Vatan, a group of activist hackers opposed to the Iranian government. The hackers said the seven were travelling with VIP status.

pearswick.press•2 days ago

We corroborated the information with the Russian passenger manifest for the September flight, which was provided by a source with access to Russian state databases.

pearswick.press•2 days ago

Read more, including details of each Russian military officer we tracked to Iran, in our exclusive here: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-experts-flew-iran-amid-clashes-with-israel-2025-03-04/

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