{"id":308970,"date":"2026-10-29T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=308970"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:03:42","slug":"reuters%d6%89-iran-has-imported-more-than-2-billion-worth-of-military-equipment-by-circumventing-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/308970\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters\u0589 Iran has imported more than $2 billion worth of military equipment by circumventing sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Iran has created a secret network of military agencies with global reach to import at least $2 billion in hardware, explosives and heavy-duty trucks since January 2025, evading both the US naval blockade and Western sanctions, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/irans-hidden-web-military-agencies-is-slipping-hardware-past-us-blockade-2026-10-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden behind names starting with the letters MOD, for the Ministry of Defense, are more than 5,000 agencies that form a formidable financial and military machine.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18 months from January 2025 to June 2026 &ndash; including four months into this year&rsquo;s war &ndash; a single one of these agencies, MOD 346428, imported huge quantities of rocket propellants, explosives and weapons components that are critical for making drones and missiles, as well as heavy-duty trucks that can serve as missile launchers. The hardware came in by land, sea and air &ndash; much of it recorded as originating in China, Russia and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>This investigation of the MOD network is based on thousands of Iranian bank and government records, corporate filings and import data.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has created a secret network of military agencies with global reach to import at least $2 billion in hardware, explosives and heavy-duty trucks since January 2025, evading both the US naval blockade and Western sanctions, a Reuters investigation has found. Hidden behind names starting with the letters MOD, for the Ministry of Defense, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":308962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308971,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308970\/revisions\/308971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}