Security Minister Benny Gantz says Tehran is using the aircraft to train ‘personnel from Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon’ to fly UAVs.
Iran is providing drone training to foreign fighters at an airport near the city of Isfahan, Israeli Defense Ministry says a month after Tehran was monitored around the world on suspicion of attacking a drone on an Israeli-operated tank from Oman.
In their office on the latest revelations, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Sunday that Iran is using Kashan aircraft north of Isfahan to train “terrorists from Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon in Iranian airlines UAVs. [unmanned aerial vehicles]”.
Tehran is also trying to “transfer knowledge that would allow the development of UAVs on the Gaza Strip”, on Israel’s southern border, Gantz told a conference at Reichman University near Tel Aviv.
His office provided what was said to be video footage of UAVs on the Kashan route. There was no immediate comment from Iran.
Israel has joined forces to force its allies to retaliate into what they describe as the efforts of their arch-enemy, whose nuclear talks with the West have ended, in order to strengthen regional stability through fellow fighters.
An explosion on July 29 at Mercer Street, a well-known Liberian ship, a Japanese oil tanker operated by Israeli Zodiac Maritime pilots, near the mouth of the Gulf, a major oil transport system, killed two people – a Briton and a Romanian.
U.S. military says bombers from Ronald Reagan’s aircraft carrier, which was sent to help Mercer Road – have confirmed that the explosion came from an Iranian-made drone, which has been criticized by some international authorities.
Iran has refused to participate.