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Iran Rearms Through 5,000 Numbered Buyers No Western Sanctions List Names
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Iran Rearms Through 5,000 Numbered Buyers No Western Sanctions List Names

A Reuters investigation traces $2 billion in wartime imports, from Chinese rocket-fuel chemicals to Russian detonators, to Iranian military buyers that no Western government appears to have designated. One of their customers supplies drones to Russia.

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Qaem missile family

Iran's Qaem family comprises TOW-derived short-range surface-to-air missiles, UAV-carried glide bombs and the longer-range Qaem-118 counter-air interceptor.

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Zolfaghar

Iran's road-mobile, solid-fuel Zolfaghar ballistic missile extends the Fateh-110 family to a claimed 700 km and has been used in cross-border strikes since 2017.

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Shahed-149 Gaza

Iran's largest Shahed-family reconnaissance-strike UCAV, presented as a turboprop answer to the MQ-9 Reaper with long-endurance ISR and precision-strike roles, but with performance and production claims still dependent on Iranian and trade-press reporting.

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Emad

The Emad is Iran's first precision-guided ballistic missile — a Ghadr airframe with a maneuvering reentry vehicle, ~1,700 km range. It has flown in every True Promise salvo against Israel since April 2024, and the 2026 war gutted the launcher force and factories that field it.

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Paveh

The Paveh is Iran's 1,650 km-claimed cruise missile — the IRGC's Project 351, identical to the Houthis' Quds that hit Saudi Aramco in 2019. Used against Israel in April 2024 (0 of ~30 got through), exported to three proxy arsenals, and absent from the missile-dominated 2025–26 wars.

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Fattah-2

Iran's hypersonic-glide evolution of the Fattah-1 — a missile pairing a solid-fuel booster with a maneuvering liquid-fuel glide vehicle, claimed to reach Mach 15 over ~1,500 km. Topical after the Israel–Iran exchanges, but its real performance is heavily disputed.

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Sejjil

Iran's first solid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile — a two-stage, road-mobile MRBM fielded by the IRGC, with a ~2,000 km range and a short-notice launch capability that marks a step beyond liquid-propellant Shahab derivatives.

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Khorramshahr

Iran's heaviest liquid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile family, derived from the North Korean Musudan, carrying large conventional warheads or submunitions out to ~2,000 km and assessed capable of 3,000 km with a lighter payload — a centrepiece of IRGC strategic strike and the subject of.

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Fattah-1

Iran's most advanced operational ballistic missile — a solid-propellant MRBM with a powered maneuvering re-entry vehicle, marketed by Tehran as "hypersonic" and combat-tested against Israeli defenses in 2024 and 2025.