WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two Iranian cargo vessels carrying an ingredient for missile propellant will sail from China to Iran in the next few weeks, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing intelligence from security officials in two Western countries.
In Davos, Mohammad Javad Zarif also says Israel failed in its Gaza war objectives, Tehran not building nukes; report says Iran to receive missile fuel shipment from China
Named the Golbon and the Jairan, the Iranian vessels will carry more than 1,000 tonnes of sodium perchlorate to fuel medium-range missiles.
Once China produced weapons-grade uranium, it assembled its first atomic bomb in as little as three to five weeks. Iran may do it even faster.
The Iranian regime has never looked so weak and vulnerable, with its empire of terror in tatters (thanks to Israel) and mounting crises at home (thanks to its corruption). Amid the doom and gloom, Iranian elites have at least been able to count on the continued flow of oil revenues needed to line their own pockets,
Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine.
On Chinese social media, some want Iran to go nuclear – but others think it should learn from China’s “reform and opening.”
Iran will never negotiate on its defense and military capabilities in any way, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei emphasized. Speaking at the weekly presser on Monday, spokesperson Baghaei reacted to the rumors spreading over alleged negotiation between Iran and Europe over the Islamic Republic's missile program.
The loose arrangement of hostile powers could pose a series of conundrums for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.
Iran this month launched its most extensive military exercises in decades, flying thousands of drones, parading rocket launchers and ballistic missiles, and thwarting a simulated assault on a nuclear facility that involved “a multitude of air threats,” according to state television coverage.
Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan claimed that the United States is in a "stronger, more secure position" than four years ago under President Trump.
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