DUSHANBE, Oct 30, Lidia Isamova. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan denied the reports that Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being assembled on Tajik territory, the country's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Earlier, Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon* in his broadcast claimed that Iranian drones for the Russian army. Later, the vice-speaker of the legislative chamber of the Uzbek parliament, Alisher Kadyrov, said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of the republic should force the journalist to apologize for this fake. The State Committee of the Defense Industry of Uzbekistan refuted the statement of the Ukrainian journalist.
«We refute the words of Ukrainian blogger Dmitry Gordon*, voiced by him on October 28 … about the production by the Iranian side in Tajikistan of «killing Ukrainians» drones,» the Tajik document says. Foreign Ministry.
«Tajikistan does not export military equipment to third countries, and the Tajik side has not received any official requests from Ukraine on this issue,» the country's Foreign Ministry notes.
U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Jake Sullivan in July stated that Iran was allegedly preparing to transfer unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia, without explaining where the States got such information from and without providing any evidence. Subsequently, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani denied these allegations. In official statements and reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, information about the purchase and/or use of Iranian drones in the special operation zone did not sound. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova previously stated that the topic of Russia's purchase of combat drones from Iran was artificially thrown into the US media.
* An individual acting as a foreign agent.