EXCLUSIVE: Russia flew 140 million euros and a selection of captured UK and US weapons to Iran in return for dozens of deadly drones for its war in Ukraine, a security source has told @SkyNews
A Russian aircraft secretly transported the cash and 2 models of munition - a British NLAW anti-tank missile, a US Javelin anti-tank missile & a Stinger anti-aircraft missile - to an airport in Tehran in the early hours of 20 August, the source said speaking anonymously.
The weapons had been part of a shipment of UK and US military equipment intended for the Ukrainian military that "fell into Russian hands", according to the source.
The source said they could give Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) the ability to study Western technology and potentially copy it. "They will probably be reverse-engineered and used in future wars," the source said.
For its part, Iran supplied Russia with more than 160 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including 100 Shahed-136 drones, the source claimed. These have been nicknamed "suicide drones" because they explode on impact.
The source alleged that a further drone deal worth €200m (£174m) had been agreed between Tehran and Moscow in the past few days.
"That means there will be another big supply of UAVs from Iran soon," the source said.
The Iranian and Russian governments were approached for a response to the allegations.
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