Reuters reports a covert network made up of roughly five thousand military organizations, supplying the Islamic Republic with the equipment and materials needed for its missile and drone programs, as well as suppression tools.

According to Reuters, the network brings the Islamic Republic’s needed equipment into the country via commercial routes and unconventional methods, including multi-stage movement of cargoes and changing purchase and sale invoices.

Report by Niloufar Mansouri, a journalist at Iran International