New Delhi, March 5 -- Iran may have received some assistance from its so-called "friends", including potentially the sharing of information amid the conflict in West Asia to counter Israel and the US, according to Former US Principal Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer.

Speaking in a podcast with ANI, Finer said that while some information used for targeting could come from open sources, there remains a possibility that Tehran received limited assistance from countries maintaining friendly ties with it, in a veiled reference to China.

"I'd say a few things. One, unfortunately, a lot of this information is readily available in the open, what we call the open source world, commercially available imagery available simply by Googling...