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Maybe.

If the supplier for iran is centralized then having a catalogue of these specific components and monitoring for purchases of them could tip who the supplier is. If the source of the components are separated into different entities and components are only brought together in Iran, then yea I think it would be super hard to find them.

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These parts are commodities. It’s like saying the drone had sheet metal, rivets, screws, wires, and solder. Even if somehow they had all been purchased in one Amazon shopping cart, it would create zero hardship to “force” them to be purchased separately from different vendors.

Why would you think the supplier is centralized when any of X billion people could have bought the component or a product containing it and sold it to someone who sold it to someone who sold it to Iran ?

I don’t think anything about it. That’s why I said “if”.

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