If a third party re-sold Iranian munitions to Ukraine, it happened without Iran's prior knowledge. Iran is not deliberately going to arm a country Russia is at war with.
“Prior knowledge” “deliberately” is very vague.
If an arms dealer asks an Iranian factory for a specific type of ammunition (one that is not in export catalog and one that Syria to my knowledge doesn’t use) then said factory would have to be extremely naive to not know who the end client is.
If anyone has experience in 3rd party front company transactions it’s Iran. That’s literally how Iran scours the globe for various goods/components.
The term military-industrial complex is not appropriate here. Iran's military industries are not acting according to their corporate special interests, nor are they lobbying political decision makers to this effect.
It is appropriate. At international Arms shows there’s Iranian companies just like any other country. Or do you naively miss all the advertisement Iran does at these shows? Iran has gone on record trying to be a major export country for weapons.
Said factories build per contracts and If they didn’t go by contracts and interest then you would be correct.
Also, factional politics doesn't imply that said factions could do as they please. Making 100.000 shells disappear is an off limit consideration. There's effective central state control over defense and military matters.
These are IRGC companies, IRGC can decide who they sell too. SNSC has IRGC aligned representatives. It is not as black and white as you like to make it seem.
If you did business transactions in Iran you would realize this.
The IRGC in particular has no interest in jeopardizing Iran's strategic partnership with Russia, in exchange for a minor arms sale. It too benefits much more from a stable relationship with Moscow.
There is no evidence of strategic relationship just words. I’m cautiously optimistic with the recent trends, but calling it strategic is premature. And Russia cannot do a damn thing to Iran. We are its only friendly country willing to supply anything. Even China has turned its back on military arms.
How is the 25 year ‘strategic’ deal with China going? Still waiting for those results. Let’s not call anything strategic anymore till the results appear.
There's no evidence Iran sold these to Ukraine. Such a move would run counter to Iranian policy as we know it.
There is evidence. It’s pictures and videos. Unless you think CIA/MI6 went thru the painstakingly pointless process of copying Iranian munitions and posting it on social media so Russia would get ‘mad’ at Iran.
The ones you see is the a fraction of what is happening. Ukrainian armed forces are under a cell phone ban. Even posting videos of air strikes is punishable by law by civilians. Compare this to Russian especially Wagner forces that actively use there phones.
On the other hand, it's a documented fact that the USA regime is going out of its way to try and sabotage the slightest semblance of cooperation between Iran and any other party, especially Russia. Fake news about supposed Iranian arms supplies to Kiev perfectly fit this strategy.
Not fake news if there is corresponding video showing the munitions being taken out with their fuses. You have presented zero evidence that these are not Iranian arms, just conjecture.
Very few Iranians were martyred in Syria, even though zionists would like us to believe otherwise.
Off the top of my head: Two Iranian air defense officials were killed late last year. Last couple months a high ranking official was killed via roadside bomb. Maybe these mean nothing
Let’s not even talk about the T4 airbase attack back in the day.
Proof would need to be provided that these are real rounds made in Iran (they're easy to fake), and then that Iran sold anything to Ukraine. Pictures released by the regime in Kiev aren't conclusive onto themselves.
There are videos as well. And like I said plausible deniability on Iran’s part until the point you get where certain munitions are not in Iranian arms catlogs.
For example Iranian 122MM has been seen in Ukraine. Can you tell me which Iranian ally uses this munition? Syria? Yemen? PMUs? Not everything can be explained away via the “confiscated arms” excuse.
Iranian Grad rockets/152MM/122MM/mortars have all made it to Ukraine. And that is what some soldiers have actually videoed.