Iran’s shadow fleet fuels Myanmar junta

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Iran has secretly shipped vast amounts of jet fuel to Myanmar's military

Illicit Iranian deliveries of jet fuel have powered an expansive bombing campaign by the Myanmar junta that has struck more than 1,000 civilian locations in 15 months, a Reuters investigation has found.

Iran has also dispatched cargoes of urea, a key ingredient in the junta's munitions, including the bombs it drops from drones and paragliders.

Taken together, the Iranian deliveries to Myanmar's military have helped shift the dynamic of the five-year civil war, which pits the junta against an array of rebel groups, none of whom have a conventional air force or a ready supply of weapons as powerful as the bombs and missiles launched by fighter jets.

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