According to the local Polish daily Glos Wielkopolski, the Polish company WSK Poznań sold parts to Iran that were used in the production of Shahed-136 suicide drones—drones that were recently employed in Russian attacks against Poland.
The case was first exposed by an investigative journalist from Radio Zet, who reported that fuel pumps directly exported from the Polish factory eventually ended up on Iranian drone production lines.
According to him, WSK Poznań sold the parts to Iran Motorsazan, a manufacturer of agricultural tractors, which then delivered them to drone factories. The completed drones were later transferred to Russia and used in the war in Ukraine.
After uncovering the matter, Poland’s Internal Security Agency prosecuted the company’s director. In April 2025, following his voluntary acceptance of punishment, the court sentenced him to a one-year suspended prison term with a two-year probation, a fine, and mandatory regular reporting to the court.
This scandal coincided with a September 10 attack in which 19 Russian drones struck Polish territory, several of them crossing from Belarus. Four drones were shot down, but one hit a residential building in Lublin province.
Although no casualties were reported, NATO invoked Article 4 and held a consultative meeting. However, the alliance declared that the Russian drones’ incursion into Polish airspace was “deliberate” but did not constitute a “direct attack.”
The foreign ministers of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine condemned the incident and called for strengthening Ukraine’s air defense system and NATO’s eastern flank.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also warned that the attack could be a test by Moscow to gauge Western allies’ readiness, likening it to the psychological atmosphere of the Crimea crisis.
U.S. lawsuit filed to seize $584,000 from Iranian linked to IRGC drone program
In another development, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a lawsuit to seize $584,000 in Tether cryptocurrency linked to Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, 39, CEO of Sanat Danesh Rahpooyan Aflak.
According to the Massachusetts Attorney’s Office, the company produced “Sepehr” navigation systems for drones and missiles of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), with 99% of its sales in 2021 and 2022 going to the IRGC Aerospace Force.
This technology was used in a Shahed drone during the January 2024 attack on the “Tower 22” base in Jordan, which killed three U.S. soldiers.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office declared that all assets linked to terrorist activities against the U.S. will be confiscated. Abedini, who had previously been indicted in the U.S. for materially supporting the IRGC, was arrested in Milan in December 2024 but freed in January 2025 in exchange for the release of an Italian journalist detained in Iran—an incident described as an example of the Iranian regime’s hostage-taking policy.
