️🇮🇷🇺🇸 Reuters: Iran has created a secret network of more than 5,000 military agencies, identified by names that begin with MOD for the Ministry of Defense, to import at least $2 billion in hardware, explosives and heavy trucks since January 2025, while evading US Navy blockades and also according to a Western investigation. on thousands of Iranian bank records, organizational documents and import data.
A single agency, MOD 346428, imported $2.3 billion of military hardware between January 2025 and June 2026, including common rocket fuel components and hundreds of Iwco trucks that can be used as missile launchers, with goods recorded as coming from China, Russia and Germany, while 97% of the shipments were moved without currency inspection. Monthly imports fell 47 percent in March after the war began, but recovered by May, with shipments arriving in Iran by land, sea and air, as Reuters found no evidence that any of the numbered agencies had been designated by Western governments, and a Treasury spokeswoman said the U.S. had cut off Iran's economic lifelines.