How does Iran acquire missiles and drones despite sanctions? A secret network helps

According to the findings, only one of the agencies - MOD number 346428 - imported goods worth USD 2.3 billion. These included, among others: Chinese titanium, chemicals used to produce rockets, rocket fuel and Russian detonators intended for rocket and drone warheads.

Iran also received hundreds of trucks from the Italian brand Iveco, which can be used as mobile missile launchers, as well as thousands of Toyota Hilux and Land Cruiser cars used by the Iranian armed forces.

Deliveries of equipment continued even after hostilities between the US, Israel and Iran began in February this year. Goods reached Iran through various routes - by ships from Russia via the Caspian Sea, by trucks from Central Asia and by plane from China. Since the beginning of the conflict, Iran has also imported equipment worth $27 million from the United Arab Emirates, which was also the target of Iranian retaliatory attacks.

How does the secret network work?

According to the report, the Iranian network uses foreign intermediaries and front companies, and purchases are financed from oil sales revenues, bypassing international sanctions. Trusted Iranians abroad pay for goods with funds held in foreign banks and organize their transport to the country.

The investigators' findings shed light on how Iran is able to replenish its supplies of missiles and drones even though it has already launched thousands of them during the war. The supply network allows for a constant inflow of key components, which significantly strengthens the country's military potential.

Doubts about support from Russia and China

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump recently assured that he does not believe that China and Russia support Iran on a large scale. In his opinion, if such actions took place, the United States would quickly know about them.

"If they are doing it, it is on a very small scale, but I don't think they are doing it at all. They have too much to lose and we would know it very quickly!" – he wrote on Truth Social.