Washington - "Al-Quds" dot com - Saeed Erekat - The US administration, in its statements and official statements, attaches special importance in its comments on the Russian-Ukrainian war since the beginning of this month to the " Iranian marches ", which the US administration claims that Russia uses extensively to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure and kill Ukrainian civilians. .

On the "Iranian marches," US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, "Today the United States joined the United Kingdom and France in raising the issue of Iran's transfer of drones to Russia at a meeting of the UN Security Council, where members of the Council received expert briefings from the United Nations Secretariat on Reports of the transfer of these dangerous weapons... We have expressed our deep concern about Russia's acquisition of these drones from Iran in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231."

"The United States began warning in July that Iran was planning to transfer drones to Russia for use in Russia's brutal war against Ukraine, and we now have ample evidence of these drones being used to strike Ukrainian civilians and critical civilian infrastructure," the statement adds.

"As Iran continues to lie and deny supplying weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine, we are committed to working with allies and partners to prevent dangerous weapons transfers to Russia. We will not hesitate to use our sanctions and other appropriate tools on all those involved in these transfers, and we will also continue to Increase unprecedented security assistance to Ukraine, including air defense capabilities, so that Ukraine can defend itself from these weapons.

And American media showed that it was rubble of destroyed marches on television, which they claimed were Iranian-made, noting that they did not show any signs confirming that their origin was Iranian.

For his part, Deputy Spokesman for the US State Department, Vedant Patel, confirmed in his press conference on Wednesday that these drones, in response to a question put to him by Al-Quds correspondent on Tuesday, are Iranian-made, and that Russia uses them because they are available in abundance and because they are cheap to manufacture.

The spokesman says that these weapons would give a major boost to the "faltering" Russian war machine in Ukraine, "but Iran's clerical rulers are facing increasing international pressure over their military alliance with Moscow."

Iran denied that it is providing Russia with drones, as Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Thursday, "The allegation that Iranian missiles were sent to Russia for use against Ukraine is baseless."

In a tweet on Twitter, Abdollahian said that he had received a phone call from European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, and "I reminded him of our clear policy of opposing the war and its escalation in Ukraine."

He stressed that "the allegation that Iranian missiles were sent to Russia to be used against Ukraine is baseless," noting that "we have defense cooperation with Russia, but certainly sending weapons and drones against Ukraine is not within our policies."

Iran has worked to develop a huge domestic arms industry in the face of international sanctions and embargoes that prevented it from importing weapons, including drones and missiles, which it considers vital elements in its protection system from its archenemy, Israel, as well as from the United States, which has forces deployed in several bases in Region.

Although Western military analysts say that Iran sometimes exaggerates its capabilities, drones have become an essential element in Iran's monitoring of the safety of its borders, especially the Gulf waters around the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil supplies pass.

In the past few years, Iran and the regional powers it supports have increasingly relied on drones in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, where they have extended their influence through proxy groups for the benefit of Iran.

Saudi Arabia and the United States said they believed Iran was behind a drone and missile attack on important Saudi oil facilities in 2019, which Tehran denies.

The Islamic Republic says its drones are the most powerful in the region. In addition to surveillance missions, it can be used in attacks, either by dropping munitions or by so-called "kamikaze" suicide planes that hit their target before exploding. Iran designed its suicide planes to travel long distances so that they could strike the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

Iran says its ballistic missiles, with a range of up to 2,000 km, are an important deterrent and response force against the United States, Israel and other potential regional targets. It denies it is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.

Its missile program, which has already produced about 1,000 short and medium-range ballistic missiles, is one of the largest of its kind in the Middle East.

The Arms Control Association says that the list of Iranian short and medium-range ballistic missiles includes Shahab-1, with an estimated range of 300 km, Zulfiqar (700 km), Shahab-3 (800-1000 km) and Imad-1, which is under development and has a range (up to 2,000 km). kilometers), and the Sejjil, which is also under development and has a range of (1,500-2,500 kilometers). Iran also has cruise missiles such as the KH-55, which is an air-launched missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead (up to three thousand kilometers), in addition to an advanced missile. Anti-ship is capable of carrying a warhead weighing 1000 kg.