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13 July 2022

Discussing U.S. assessments of Iran “preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred UAVs, including weapons-capable UAVs”, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan maintained: “We have not seen evidence of delivery, but we have seen evidence of engagement between the two countries on this specific issue… Russia deepening an alliance with Iran to kill Ukrainians is something that the whole world should look at and see as a profound threat but a particularly acute threat to countries in the region since these same kinds of UAVs are the UAVs that were destroying infrastructure and killing people in both Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East”.

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