"Iran sold missiles to russia worth nearly 3 billion dollars to support president vladimir putin’s almost four-year war in Ukraine", - Bloomberg writes, citing an anonymous Western official.
Contracts with moscow, concluded from October 2021 — before the start of the war — for the supply of ballistic missiles and surface-to-air missiles amount to approximately 2.7 billion dollars, the publication says.
The purchases included hundreds of Fath-360 short-range ballistic missiles, nearly 500 other short-range ballistic missiles, and about 200 surface-to-air missiles associated with air defense systems.
Moscow and Tehran grew closer after putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The conflict triggered sweeping sanctions against moscow and the kremlin’s most serious confrontation with the West since the Cold War, while Iran’s arms supplies to russia further deepened the partnership between the two countries.