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Gantz: Iran giving militias drone training near Isfahan, sharing know-how with Gaza

Kashan airbase used to train "terror operatives from Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon in flying Iranian-made UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)," defense minister reveals.

by  ILH Staff and Reuters
Published on  09-12-2021 20:21
Last modified: 09-12-2021 20:55
Gantz: Iran giving militias drone training near Isfahan, sharing know-how with GazaAFP / Vahid Reza Alaei

Iran's state TV showing radar-evading flying boats | Illustration: AFP / Vahid Reza Alaei

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz accused Iran on Sunday of providing foreign militias with drone training at an airbase near the city of Isfahan, a month after Tehran came under global scrutiny over a suspected drone attack on an Israeli-managed tanker off Oman.

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In what his office described as a new disclosure, Gantz said Iran was using Kashan airbase north of Isfahan to train "terror operatives from Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon in flying Iranian-made UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)".

Iran was also trying to "transfer know-how that would allow the manufacturing of UAVs in the Gaza Strip," on Israel's southern border, Gantz told a conference at Reichman University near Tel Aviv.

His office provided what it said were satellite images showing UAVs on the runways at Kashan. There was no immediate comment from Iran.

A July 29 blast aboard the Mercer Street, a Liberian-flagged, Japanese-owned petroleum product tanker managed by Israeli-owned Zodiac Maritime, near the mouth of the Gulf, a key oil shipping route, killed two crew members – a Briton and a Romanian.

The US military said explosives experts from the Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier – which deployed to assist the Mercer Street – concluded the explosion was from a drone produced in Iran, which was accused by other world powers in the attack.

Iran has denied involvement.

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