The United States has imposed sanctions on entities in Iran, Hong Kong, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates that the U.S. Treasury Department says comprise a network for the procurement of parts for Iran’s drone program.

The network has facilitated shipments and financial transactions in support of a critical component used in Iran’s Shahed drones, which Iran has been supplying to Russia for use against Ukraine, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on September 27.

The critical component is known as a servomotor and is used in Iran’s Shahed-series unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The OFAC said the sanctions took aim at the procurement of servomotors by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) aerospace organization.

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