Iran shot down a flight to Kyiv, killing nearly 200. Now they’re making deadly drones.

Iranian-made drones now regularly explode in Ukraine. The two once had close relations, but that ended in 2020. Through an Iranian activist in Kyiv, we explore the diplomatic rupture.

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Peyman holding the ‘true Iranian flag’ with the symbol of the former Iranian monarch, in Ukraine

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