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By David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
WASHINGTON — Biden’s administration has laid out a sweeping effort to stop Iran’s ability to produce and deliver drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine, a venture that echoes its years-long program to cut off Tehran’s access to nuclear technology.
In talks in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, a range of intelligence, military and national security officials described a sprawling US program that aims to stifle Iran’s ability to make drones and get the Russians to unleash “kamikazes. ” unmanned. planes and, if all else fails, provide the Ukrainians with the necessary defenses to shoot them down from the skies.
U. S. forces The U. S. military is helping the Ukrainian military select sites where drones are ready to be released, a complicated task as the Russians move liberation sites from football fields to parking lots. , to Ukraine’s chances of shooting them down, with everything from gunfire to missiles.
But all 3 approaches have faced profound challenges, and the push to remove critical parts for drones is already proving to be as complicated as the decades-long crusade to deprive Iran of the factors needed to build the sensitive centrifuges it uses to enrich quasi-centrifuges. Grade uranium.
The administration’s stampede to deal with Iranian-supplied drones comes as Ukraine uses its own drones to strike deep into Russia, adding an attack this week on a base that houses some of the country’s strategic bombers. And it comes as officials in Washington and London warn that Iran could be about to supply missiles to Russia, which would help ease Moscow’s severe shortage.
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