🇺🇦🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran spent years studying Ukraine.
300+ articles in Iranian defense publications analyzing every lesson from drone tactics to 3D-printed weapons to how a smaller force sustains itself against a superpower.
The finding's striking: Iran didn't just watch Ukraine, it used it as a blueprint. Cheap mass-produced drones, mobile combat units, decentralized manufacturing, AI weaponry... all recommended by Iranian military analysts before the war with the US even started.
Ukraine taught the world how to fight a bigger enemy on a budget and Iran was taking notes in the front row.
Source: FT