Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, accused the US and Israel of orchestrating a ‘diabolical plot’, claiming they copied Iran’s Shahed-136 drone design and repurposed it as a modified ‘Lucas’ drone to falsely blame Tehran for drone attacks across the region.
Already read speculation Isreal was behind launching some of them to try an draw in more countries and while it’s unproven, to me it sounds like a very Isreali kind of thing to do.
didn’t the US just outright say they had copies of Shahed drones early on? I remember when it started they’d annouced on the news they’d blown something up with copies of Iran’s ‘suicide drones’ and wondered why they bothered to clone them when they have so many other options.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/2025/12/07/by-reverse-engineering-shahed-drone-us-gives-iran-a-dose-of-its-own-medicine/
I think I saw a news report saying that myself.