Reported claim

“Ebrahim Zolfaghari accused the United States and Israel of orchestrating a diabolical plot to copy Iran's Shahed-136 drone and use it to frame Iran for regional attacks.”

high confidence 7 sources

Reported by 7 sources.

Belief History

Mar 20 Apr 03

Sources

Al Jazeera supports medium reliability
accused the US and Israel of orchestrating a 'diabolical plot', claiming they copied Iran's Shahed-136 drone design and repurposed it as a modified 'Lucas' drone to falsely blame Tehran for drone attacks across the region
2026-03-20
Al Jazeera supports medium reliability
to falsely blame Tehran for drone attacks across the region
2026-03-20
Press TV supports low reliability
after suffering military setbacks on the battlefield and failing to build political coalitions against Iran, the enemy has resorted to deception
2026-03-20
Al Jazeera supports medium reliability
repurposed it as a modified 'Lucas' drone to falsely blame Tehran for drone attacks across the region
2026-03-20
Al Jazeera supports medium reliability
accused the US and Israel of orchestrating a 'diabolical plot', claiming they copied Iran's Shahed-136 drone design and repurposed it as a modified 'Lucas' drone to falsely blame Tehran
2026-03-20
Al Jazeera supports medium reliability
accused the US and Israel of orchestrating a 'diabolical plot', claiming they copied Iran's Shahed-136 drone design and repurposed it as a modified 'Lucas' drone to falsely blame Tehran
2026-03-15
Al Jazeera supports medium reliability
accused the US and Israel of orchestrating a 'diabolical plot', claiming they copied Iran's Shahed-136 drone design and repurposed it as a modified 'Lucas' drone to falsely blame Tehran
2026-03-15

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