The United States is designating eight Iranian individuals in leadership roles at Paravar Pars, an Iranian firm that produces unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force. This is noted in a press statement Friday by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

“Iranian UAVs are being transferred to Russia for use in its brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine. (…). The United States will continue to use every tool at our disposal to disrupt and delay these transfers and impose costs on actors engaged in this activity,” the statement also reads, in part.

“The United States is also taking action today to identify two vessels, the IRIS Makran and the IRIS Dena, as property in which the Government of Iran has an interest,  pursuant to E.O. 13599  and the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR),” the statement concluded.