Reuters wrote in an investigative report that the Islamic Republic imported equipment and materials needed for missile and UAV programs and suppression tools through a network of more than five thousand hidden military entities. According to this report, one of these entities imported equipment worth two billion three hundred million dollars, including chemicals for rocket fuel, industrial parts and heavy trucks, from January 1403 to June 1405, while circumventing the sanctions. An interview with Harug Alavi, editorial board member of Iran International, and Myad Malki, former head of the US Treasury Department's Sanctions Targeting Office.