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In light of the triangle of escalating Western pressure on Iran - the nuclear file, human rights, and marches in Ukraine - the senior adviser to the Iranian Minister of Intelligence said that "the Iranian marches play a decisive role in the war between Russia and the West," as he put it.

The adviser, whose name was not mentioned by the Iranian IRNA agency, added last Wednesday that Iran's capabilities have reached a point that made China prepare to buy 15,000 drones from Tehran, noting that there are customers for Iranian drones in 90 countries.

And the senior advisor to the Iranian Minister of Intelligence considered that his country's strengthening of its relations with the East and its attainment of this status prompted the West to not tolerate this.

And last September, Ukraine announced that it had managed, for the first time, to shoot down an Iranian-made "Shahed-136" drone in the Kharkiv region, which was used by Russian forces.

This came a few weeks after US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan revealed Russia's intention to buy hundreds of Iranian combat drones for use in Ukraine.

Tehran officially denied that it had any intention to sell drones to Russia, and said that what it handed over to Moscow was before the war on Ukraine.


Tehran does not care about accusations

In this context, the former leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Kanaani Moghaddam, explains that Tehran produces and trades in various types of marches to reduce dependence on oil, and does not care about Western positions.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Muqaddam believes that this statement does not confirm that Iran has presented military marches to Russia for use in the Ukrainian war, explaining that the marches carry various technologies, and Russia may have changed them and made them warlike.

However, he added, "Iran may have already sold war marches to Russia, but they were not intended for use in war, while Russia did so."

Regarding the position that the West could take regarding this Iranian statement, Moqaddam says that in the event of war, it is not important what the other party says, adding that America and the West are trying to pressure Iran in the file of the marches, and they are the largest exporters of weapons to one of the warring parties (meaning Ukraine).


common agenda

While there was no comment from Tehran or Moscow, Western media announced a few days ago that Iran had launched a drone factory in Russia, and according to The Wall Street Journal, this factory will be able to produce 6,000 Iranian drones in Russia. The American newspaper considered this the latest sign of deepening cooperation between Iran and Russia.

In this context, foreign policy analyst Ali Reza Farastkhahwa refers to what he describes as a "project to put pressure on Iran," pointing to the existence of a common (Western) agenda with regard to the two issues of the nuclear file and the marches.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, Farastkhawa stops at what he described as "the recent claim of the International Atomic Energy Agency about some of Iran's activities at the Fordow facility, then the statement of America and the European Troika (Britain, France and Germany) in order to turn the differences related to guarantees and the issue of Iranian nuclear activities into a point of contention." difficult, on the eve of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Governors".

With this coincidence, Farastkhwah believes that at the present time "there is a similar performance with regard to Iran's role in the Ukrainian war, in order for Iran to face pressure from all sides on all issues."

accusations despite the talks

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said last January that a team from his country had discussed with the Ukrainian side in a third country the Western accusation against Iran of providing Russia with drones to use in the war.

He emphasized that the Ukrainian side was unable to prove its claims in the presence of technical experts within the two teams. Kanani also said that Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell that his country was ready to resume talks with Kyiv.

Despite the talks between Tehran and Kiev, the file of the Iranian marches is still at the forefront.

In this regard, Ali Reza Farastkhawa believes that the reason is the weakness of the Iranian government's diplomacy headed by Ibrahim Raisi, adding, "Although Iranian officials denied providing any kind of support to Russia or Ukraine in this war, and expressing their willingness to mediate, they were unable to get out of this war." This crisis using diplomacy."