{"id":14643,"date":"2024-09-06T22:35:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T22:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14643"},"modified":"2024-09-06T22:36:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T22:36:03","slug":"iran-transfers-ballistic-missiles-to-russia-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14643","title":{"rendered":"Iran transfers ballistic missiles to Russia, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Iran recently transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in the war against&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a>, according to two sources familiar with the intelligence, completing a delivery that US and Western officials had warned was in the works for almost a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not clear when exactly the missiles were delivered, but their transfer comes as Russia has intensified its missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities and as Ukraine braces for large-scale Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure this winter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told allies at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany on Friday that Ukraine urgently needed more air defense systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/iran-transfers-ballistic-missiles-russia-191908657.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/iran-transfers-ballistic-missiles-russia-191908657.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Iran recently transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in the war against Ukraine, according to two sources familiar with the intelligence, completing a delivery that US and Western officials had warned was in the works for almost a year.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear when exactly the missiles were delivered, but their transfer comes as Russia has intensified its missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities and as Ukraine braces for large-scale Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure this winter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told allies at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany on Friday that Ukraine urgently needed more air defense systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/iran-transfers-ballistic-missiles-russia-191908657.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,272,355,314,1545,156,338,315,311,158,1055],"class_list":["post-14643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-iran","tag-missiles","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14645,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions\/14645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}