The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khameneigave the order to start delivering ballistic missiles Ababil and Fath-360 to Russia “within days”, which marks in red a policy of strengthening military ties between Moscow And Tehran, European Union officials confirmed this week. delivery of these missiles to Vladimir Putin This makes Iran the main supplier of arms to Russia and terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen, which will also change the course of the war with Ukraine after Volodymyr Zelensky’s advances in Russia’s Kursk region.
Already in October 2022, it appeared that Iran was preparing a first delivery of short-range ballistic missiles. Fateh-110 And Zolfaghar. He Ababil and the Fath-360 They have a respective range of 86 kilometers and 120 kilometers, which limits the targets against which Russia could use them to those relatively close to its borders and front lines.
This is why the Russians, who have already trained their manipulationThey will use them against frontline targets, military personnel, logistics centres, command posts, barracks or fuel depots.
The Patriot: The Only Defense
Ababil and Fath-360 are very fast. Therefore, he can only knock them down the Patriot system, which is worth between two and four million dollars, almost the same cost as the Russian missiles it is designed to shoot down. Ukraine has at least four Patriotsalthough President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked 25 NATO countries to protect his country’s skies.
This decision is a severe blow for Ukraine, which has lost a significant portion of its electricity production capacityAs citizens increasingly rely on diesel generators to cope with extended power outages, the prospect of restoring power before the heating season becomes increasingly difficult.
Russia’s War Economy has been able to produce missiles and munitions at a rate that often exceeds the ability of Ukrainian allies to ship weaponsMoscow has also been able to rely on deliveries from countries such as Iran and North Korea, while maintaining its own manufacturing capacity with key technologies and components from countries such as China.
Iran, warehouse of Russia and Hamas
With this delivery, Iran becomes a warehouse for Russia and the terrorist groups of Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon, Shiites like Iran, and the Houthis of Yemes, also Shiites, and Hamas, although Sunni, indispensable to stop Israel in the region that Iran wants to dominate.
Hezbollah’s arsenal consists primarily of small, portable, unguided surface-to-surface artillery rockets. While these artifacts lack precision, their Their large numbers make them effective weapons of terror. According to Israeli sources, Hezbollah possessed about 15,000 rockets and missiles before the 2006 Lebanon warand fired nearly 4,000 people into Israel during the 34-day conflict. Since then, Hezbollah has expanded its rocket arsenal, now estimated at 130,000.
Iran established ties with Hamas for the first time and Islamic Jihad in the 1980s. Since then, Iran has provided funding, weapons, and training to terrorist groups. Iran has transferred several types of artillery rockets to Gaza, including Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 rockets, as well as M302s originally manufactured in Syria.
Since 2006, Tehran increasingly focuses on supply its regional allies and representatives, including Palestinian terrorists, with the knowledge and equipment to manufacture rockets locally.
