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Russia is supplying Iran with weaponry to fight the U.S. and Israel, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Infowars previously reported on how Moscow shares targeting intelligence with Tehran, but the relationship appears to go far beyond information sharing. A supply line in the Caspian Sea moves ammunition, drones and other weaponry between the two nations.
“Last week’s strike was Israel’s first ever on the world’s largest inland sea. Far beyond the reach of the U.S. Navy, the sea connects Russian and Iranian ports about 600 miles apart, giving the countries a place to freely swap weapons along with goods such as wheat and oil,” The WSJ said Tuesday. “The route has become especially important for transferring Iran’s Shahed drones—now made in both countries—which Russia has used to bombard Ukrainian cities and Tehran has used to strike airports, energy facilities and U.S. bases across the Persian Gulf.”
On March 18 Israel struck dozens of Iranian targets in the Caspian Sea including warships, a port, a command center and a shipyard used to repair and maintain vessels.
“The most important goal of this strike was to limit Russian smuggling and show the Iranians that they don’t have sea defenses in the Caspian,” Eliezer Marum, a former commander of the Israeli Navy said.
Photos verified by the The Wall Street Journal and Storyful, which is owned by News Corp, the parent company of the Journal, showed damage to Iran’s naval headquarters at the port, along with destroyed naval vessels, though the full extent of the damage to the port itself wasn’t immediately clear.
While the Iranian Navy has largely been destroyed, it is believed that the weapons transfers will continue.
Russia and Iran signed a joint defense agreement in April 2025. Despite this, and the fact the U.S. has supplied Ukraine weapons to fight Russia for years, The WSJ refers to the weaponry trade between Moscow and Tehran as “smuggling.”
Russia and Iran will likely try to continue smuggling weapons via different routes, though Israel has cleared the way to carry out more strikes if needed to further disrupt those operations, Marum said.
With military smuggling in the Caspian intertwined with trade in crucial supplies such as wheat, the attack also threatened Iran’s food supply, signaling Israel’s ability to bring more pain to the population if necessary, the people familiar with the matter said.
Trade of a military nature has gone both ways in the Caspian. Russia has benefited militarily throughout the ongoing Ukraine war by its relationship with Iran.
The waterway has been a crucial source of supply for Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Moscow has used the Caspian to bring in large quantities of Iranian artillery shells and other ammunition to resupply troops on the front lines, the Journal has reported.
In 2023, ships plying the Caspian carried more than 300,000 artillery shells and a million rounds of ammunition from Iran to Russia, according to documents viewed by the Journal at the time.
The route has posed a growing challenge for the U.S. and allies trying to disrupt cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. Russian and Iranian ships would often turn off their transponders while making their runs, leaving them even harder to track, analysts said.
Iran/Russia is not the only relationship weaving together a web of world war. On Sunday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged other nations to join in on the Iran war. At the same time Ukraine’s embattled Dictator Vladimir Zelensky announced he is now involved in the Iran war as well as his own ongoing conflict.
