# Iran will receive Russian Su-35s only after the war with the US ends, army representative says

- URL: https://syn.by/en/politics/international-relations/iran-will-receive-russian-su-35s/
- Published: 2026-11-02T05:30:26+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T05:30:27+00:00
- Section: International Relations
- Language: en
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/politika/mezhdunarodnye-otnosheniya/iran-poluchit-rossiyskiye-su-35.md
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> Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia said the pilots are trained and the aircraft were due to arrive even before the war. Sources in the Iranian air force give as the reason fears that the US will destroy the aircraft immediately after they arrive.

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Iran will receive the Su-35 fighter jets it bought from Russia only after the war with the US ends. This was stated by Iranian army representative Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia.

According to him, the pilots have already completed training, and the aircraft were due to arrive even before the war. There is no independent confirmation of the purchase itself: the information rests on the words of an Iranian military officer.

According to sources in the Iranian air force, Tehran itself postponed acceptance of 20 aircraft, although Moscow had been ready to hand them over as early as July. The reason, according to these reports, is the Iranian military's fear that US forces will destroy the new fighters immediately after they arrive, before they can be placed in underground shelters.

The general's statement is consistent with this information, but it is unknown whether it concerns the same batch of 20 aircraft.

The first Su-35 deliveries to Tehran were promised as early as 2023. At the end of 2025, The Insider wrote about documents according to which Russia and Iran had agreed on the sale of 48 such aircraft back in 2022.

In January 2025, the Iranian military confirmed the purchase of the fighters but did not specify whether they had been delivered.

The Russian outlet Osnovnye Media, citing Iranian sources, claims that Iran has acquired a batch of multirole Su-35s. According to Russian media, preparations for receiving the aircraft, including personnel training, have already been completed.

The German publication Flug Revue reported the arrival of two aircraft, but no independent visual confirmation of this has appeared.

In March 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of an exchange of technology between Russia and Iran and warned of a new global threat. Ukrainian outlets wrote in the same weeks that during the US and Israeli operation in the Middle East, Moscow had expanded military aid to Tehran: it began supplying satellite images and drone technology.

In April 2026, according to journalistic investigations, it was reported that Moscow is passing satellite intelligence and drone technology to Tehran, which may increase the accuracy of strikes on American military facilities.

In November 2025, a military delegation of the Iranian air force visited Belarus. Talks on cooperation in the air force sphere were held between the commander of the Belarusian Air Force and Air Defence Forces, Andrei Lukyanovich, and the commander of the Iranian Air Force, Hamid Vahedi.