U.S. targets Iran’s Drone Program with new sanctions

The United States has targeted Iranian projects aiming to develop armed drones by slapping sanctions against several companies and their executives linked to them.

In June 2021, Chief Commander of IRGC Major General Hossein Salami claimed that the country has drones that have a range of 7,000km. Four months later, Salami said that the IRGC Navy made considerable progress in development and manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and now possesses hundreds of reconnaissance, surveillance, combat and Kamikaze drones with different operational ranges of up to 1,200km.