In 1984, when Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) began developing its first basic drones, no one could foresee the deployment of the latest generation of those UAVs in a military confrontation between world powers in the 2022 war in Ukraine. However, Iran’s foreign ministry officials have denied sending drones to Russia during the Ukraine war, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s Supreme Leader, tacitly accepted that Iranian drones were in the hands of the Russian army. “Now they [the West] say Iranian drones are very dangerous, and they complain why we sold the drones to this pe…