02 July 2014 (12:52 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Ramadan 1435/11 Tir 1393/06 Xin-Wei 4712

While listening to news out of France, I heard a reporter state that the first batch of Suchoi (Sukhoi) 25 Grach (NATO name: Frogfoot) attack aircraft, that recently arrived in Iraq, actually came from Iran.

The French were citing an unnamed British empire source for the info.

I think these are probably Su-25s that were flown to Iran at the beginning of the first U.S. attack on Iraq (Desert Storm 1991).  Many Iraqi air force pilots flew there Soviet and French supplied aircraft to Iran.  Iran stored, and even rebuilt most of the planes.