Iran ships 300,000 artillery shells and 1 million rounds of ammunition to Russia within six months

As people familiar with the matter state, intelligence on these shipments was passed on to the United States.

Officials in the Middle East said that the last shipment of weapons known to have crossed the Caspian Sea to Russia left Iran in early March aboard cargo ship Rasul Gamzatov, a 460-foot Russian vessel. It carried 1,000 containers with 2,000 artillery shells, a previously unreported shipment.

Sky News previously reported some other shipments from Iran to Russia.

Publicly available shipping data suggests that the Rasul Gamzatov left the Iranian port of Bandar Amirabad on 8 March and arrived in Astrakhan in Russia 6 days later. The vessel sailed back to Iran in late March and left for Russia once again, staying in docks for only a day.