Russia to Provide Iran with advanced Spy Satellite to surveil military targets

Russia said providing Iran advanced spy satellite to surveil military targets

Officials say satellite would be a major upgrade to Iranian capabilities, letting Tehran continuously photograph Israeli and US bases in Mideast.

MOSCOW - Russia is set to supply Iran with a powerful satellite, which officials say could be used to detect military targets in the Middle east, and to significantly increase Tehran's intelligence-gathering capabilities, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

The report, citing three current and former U.S. and Middle eastern officials said that Russia will supply Iran with a Russian-made Canopus-V satellite is equipped with a high-resolution camera.

Even if it is, technically speaking, it's a war, it's going to give Iran the ability to constantly monitor the facilities, ranging from the Israel defense forces and facilities, ranging from the US military bases, and the Saudi oil refineries.

Over the past few years, Iran has stepped up its efforts to develop a satellite program. In April 2020, the islamic revolutionary guard corps, which the company launched the first satellite into space, the dramatic revealing of what experts believe is the name of a covert military space program.
However, Pentagon officials, derided the Only satellite, which is nothing more than a" revolving-webcam", and the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs described it as,"a front for Iran, the further development of advanced missile technology."

However, some of the Iranian military, also make a sophisticated surveillance capabilities.

The Washington Post reported that a senior Revolutionary Guard officers have made several trips to Russia in 2018 in order to discuss the terms and conditions of the agreement on the purchase of the satellite, and the Russian president, has been in Iran in order to help the ground-based training to the team to manage the assignment of a new facility near the northern city of Karaj.

The sentry Business, which in its military infrastructure, in parallel, Iran's regular armed forces, the rigidity of the authority, the authority is responsible only to the supreme leader, as Ali Khamenei.

The satellite will be delivered in the next couple of months, which has been operating in the Russian federation, according to the report, the commission notes that Russia has declined to comment.

One of the Middle east, the official told the Post that the Canopus-V will be equipped with Russian equipment, including, among other things, a camera with an image resolution of 1.2 meters, in order to improve significantly on the present opportunity, even if it is not of the same quality as the U.S.'s spy satellites, or high-level commercial satellite photo of vendors.

The "the" is a new one in the near oğlana spy on locations that you select, as often as you want, the officials said.

"This is the best thing in the world, but it has a high-resolution display, and it's very good for the military," one of the Middle east, the official told the Post. "This is a potential, which will enable it to support the exact objective of the bank, and the refresh of the bank for this purpose, the time, each and every day.
The official also said that Iran is going to be able to share these photos of their terrorist agents throughout the region, so that the Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and of the militia of the republic of Iraq.

The report says that the united states is engaged in talks with Tehran to restore the nuclear deal with Iran, as well as, on the eve of a meeting between the President of the united states, Joe Biden, and russia's leader Vladimir Putin. 

In the past, Israel, and the united states have condemned the satellite's operations, which has been Iran, and ignores the will of the united nations security council resolutions calling on Iran not to take any action, not in order to see the action, which covers the range ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

Iran has recently stated that it did not work, the use of nuclear weapons, prior to its support by the satellite and the missile, analysis of smaller military-to-military sphere. A security guard is to launch its own satellite, call with this question.

Russia successfully defended Iran's right to launch a satellite in the sky.

A couple of months after the launch of the Now, the Russian federation, defended Iran's right to launch a satellite, rejecting the US claim that Tehran has violated a UN security council resolution on the approval of the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the six major states of america, by and send it into space.

Russia's permanent Representative to the united nations, the Wassily Nebenzia, said: "the ongoing efforts of the U.s., during a far-fetched terms and conditions, is to deprive Iran of the right to deduct a peaceful space technology, is causing serious concern and deep regret."

Iran has been a number of failed satellite launches in recent years. The Imam Khomeini Space Center in a fire in February 2019 killed three researchers, authorities said at the time.

The rocket explosion in August of last year, and also caught the attention of then-US President Donald Trump, who said on Twitter that it was a classified surveillance, failure to start. Successive failures, raising doubts about the disruption of Iran's program, which Trump himself implied by tweeting that the U.S. "was not involved in the catastrophic accident was."
Over the past ten years, the iranian authorities have put several short-lived satellites into orbit and in 2013, it was on a mission in outer space game.

The experts also told the publication that it previously obtained high-resolution images delivered them to the satellite to the commercial business, but in their ability to obtain information about a potential military targets in real-time has been limited.

"In-house functions, and these images are what the people want, because it is valuable for them," says Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, usa. And he said, adding that getting a Russian technology was, in essence, allow it to reach your potential, which they have bought for their children, and if we had enough time for them.

"Iran's military, a sense of satisfaction? Yes, that's it, and that it is a phenomenon of the change, " Lewis said. "But it had to happen sooner or later."