It seems that the mysterious attacks that have become recurrent in Iran have started to alarm the authorities. Following a drone attack on a building of the Atomic Energy Organization near the city of Karaj on the outskirts of Tehran, the aviation agency announced a new law that mandates the registration of all civil unmanned aerial vehicles, regardless of their size or purpose, on an official government website within six months, according to what the IRNA agency reported today, Thursday.
The registration of civil drones has thus become mandatory, with official licenses for registered drones to be issued later.
In this context, Mohammad Hassan Zibkhash, the spokesperson for the National Aviation Authority, stated that all users of civil drones, whether individuals or legal entities, have the opportunity to obtain a registration plate issued officially by the authority after submitting their applications on the website uas.cao.ir, starting today and lasting for six months. Unregistered drones on the mentioned website will be considered smuggled and thus prohibited.
This decision comes after a small quadcopter drone targeted one of the main manufacturing centers in the country for producing centrifuges used in the Fordow and Natanz nuclear facilities. Informed sources had previously revealed that the aforementioned attack was carried out by a drone that took off from within the country, targeting a center responsible for producing replacement centrifuges for hundreds, and possibly more than those that were disrupted in a previous attack on the Natanz facility last April.
