Russia Is Reportedly Giving Iran Intel On U.S. Troop Areas
This is troublesome.
U.S. officials, under anonymity, have reported that Russia has been sharing intelligence information with Iran on the locations of U.S. troops.
The intelligence being provided to Iran by Russia is reportedly the locations of U.S. personnel, warships, and other military assets throughout the Middle East.
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The Washington Post broke the concerning report:
Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence.
The assistance, which has not been previously reported, signals that the rapidly expanding conflict now features one of America’s chief nuclear-armed competitors with exquisite intelligence capabilities.
Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
“It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive effort,” one of the people said.
The Russian Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment. Moscow has called for an end to the war, which it labeled an “unprovoked act of armed aggression.”
The extent of Russia’s targeting assistance to Iran was not entirely clear. The Iranian military’s own ability to locate U.S. forces has been degraded less than a week into the fighting, the officials said.
Six U.S. troops were killed and several others were injured by an Iranian drone attack Sunday in Kuwait. Iran has fired thousands of one-way attack drones and hundreds of missiles at U.S. military positions, embassies and civilians, even as the joint American-Israeli campaign has hit more than 2,000 Iranian targets — including ballistic missile sites, naval assets and the country’s leadership.
“The Iranian regime is being absolutely crushed,” said a White House spokeswoman, Anna Kelly, without commenting on any Russian aid to Iran. “Their ballistic missile retaliation is decreasing every day, their navy is being wiped out, their production capacity is being demolished, and proxies are hardly putting up a fight.”
Iran is “making very precise hits on early warning radars or over-the-horizon radars,” said Dara Massicot, an expert on the Russian military at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “They’re doing this in a very targeted way. They’re going after command and control,” she added.
Iran possesses only a handful of military-grade satellites, and no satellite constellation of its own, which would make imagery provided by Russia’s much more advanced space capabilities highly valuable — particularly as the Kremlin has honed its own targeting after years of war in Ukraine, Massicot said.
A Bahrain hotel was attacked by Iran last week after receiving intel from Russia, which reportedly had U.S. service members inside.
An Iranian drone has struck the Crowne Plaza Manama, a 5-star hotel complex in Bahrain’s capital — amid Iran’s retaliatory strikes across the Gulf targeting US-linked sites. pic.twitter.com/MBP0zfBkxt
— Breaking News (@TheNewsTrending) March 1, 2026
CBS News reported White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has responded to the new report:
The White House did not directly comment on Russia’s involvement, telling CBS News that “the Iranian regime is being absolutely crushed.”
“Their ballistic missile retaliation is decreasing every day, their navy is being wiped out, their production capacity is being demolished, and proxies are hardly putting up a fight. Operation Epic Fury is meeting or surpassing all of its goals, and the United States will continue to dominate,” Anna Kelly, White House principal deputy press secretary, said in a statement.
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, when asked during an appearance on Fox News about Russia providing intelligence to Iran on U.S. assets, said she could not comment on “intelligence reports that are leaked to the press.”
“Whether or not this happened, frankly, it doesn’t really matter, because President Trump and the United States military are absolutely decimating the rogue Iranian terrorist regime,” she added.
Later she told reporters, “It clearly is not making a difference with respect to the military operations in Iran, because we are completely decimating them.”
Watch Leavitt here:
Reporter: You said on Fox that it doesn’t really matter if Russia is giving Iran information about military assets. Why doesn’t it matter?
Karoline Leavitt: It clearly is not making any difference with respect to the military operations in Iran because we are completely… pic.twitter.com/VUXCDseu2B
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 6, 2026