Did Putin use Iranian martyr drones on Kyiv?

As Iranian munitions have hurtled through the air at the front line in the Donbas, and as Iranian suicide drones have smashed into Ukrainian cities, Tehran has denied everything – unconvincingly. The most recent was Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, who said on Saturday: ‘The Islamic Republic of Iran has not and will not provide any weapon to be used in the war in Ukraine’. With the piety beloved of hypocrites everywhere, he went on: ‘We believe that the arming of each side of the crisis will prolong the war’.

This is part of a pattern. For most of the last few weeks, Iran has officially denied that its weapons and drones have been sold to Russia for use in Ukraine – even though the use of signature Iranian weapons has been very obvious. The Shahed ‘martyr drones’ alone are unmistakable, and they have been filmed crashing, like V2 bombs, into residential targets across the country.