Iran receiving intelligence support from Russia, officials say
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Today we also learned that Iran is receiving intelligence support from Russia. |
| 0:05.0 | Our Nick Schifrin joins us now. So Nick, let's start there. What kind of intelligence? |
| 0:09.0 | Two officials who've been briefed on this intelligence tell me that Russia has shared satellite data |
| 0:15.0 | that provides the real-time movement of American troops since Saturday, since the war began. |
| 0:21.7 | That confirms a report first in the Washington Post. |
| 0:24.7 | The officials say the data includes movement of ships, movement of aircraft as they move |
| 0:29.6 | into the region, as they move throughout the region. |
| 0:32.2 | Now, the context for this is Iran's ongoing attacks, attempted attacks on U.S. troops, but also ongoing attacks |
| 0:39.1 | on U.S. bases and embassies. For example, this drone attack that crashed into the Navy's fifth |
| 0:44.8 | fleet headquarters in Bahrain, an attack on a tactical operation center in Kuwait. On a base, you see |
| 0:51.3 | the damage in the bottom right there. That killed six U.S. soldiers in a facility that the soldiers' family members say was not reinforced. |
| 0:59.2 | And attacks like this one on the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia that we studied yesterday. |
| 1:05.6 | Close call for the cameraman there. |
| 1:07.5 | But I spoke to two former senior intelligence officials and two former senior military |
| 1:13.1 | officials with extensive knowledge of the region who say, let's put this in a little bit of |
| 1:18.0 | perspective. Iran already has access to commercial satellite data, which is often very good. |
| 1:24.6 | Iran has already been taking photos of U.S. bases and embassies for many years. |
| 1:30.5 | Iran and Russia do not rehearse the sharing of real-time intelligence like this, |
| 1:35.8 | and that would require networks anyway that the U.S. is trying to take down. |
| 1:38.6 | And Iran does not need Russian intelligence to attack static targets, like those bases, like those embassies. |
| 1:45.9 | For example, air defense radars on some of these embassies are actually on Google Maps. |
| 1:50.0 | That said, the intelligence could help if Iran were to target things that are moving, |
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