Last month, Kpler said Iran was gearing up to shift stockpiles of its crude in Chinese ports ahead of any tighter US sanctions imposed by president Donald Trump. This could total 20m barrels from storage in China’s Dalian and 5m barrels held in Zhoushan. The full amount is the equivalent of 25 suezmax cargoes.

Tehran’s growing reliance on Beijing—a consequence of the battering its missile program has suffered from Israeli strikes—highlights the alignment of Iran and China with Russia and North Korea.

Iranian cargo ships allegedly carrying chemicals to make missile propellent are setting sail from China to deliver the shipment to Tehran's army.

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.

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.

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Two sanctioned Iranian ships have loaded a key ingredient for making missile propellant in China. Western intelligence sources told the Financial Times that the 2,724-teu container ship Golbon (built 2004) and the 22,600-dwt multipurpose Jairan (built 2000) will bring sodium perchlorate to Iran in the coming weeks.

Iran Shipping 1,000 Tonnes of Rocket Fuel Ingredient from China: Report | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G A new report says that Iran has bought 1,000 tonnes of a chemical used to make solid rocket fuel.

Iran and Russia have grown closer since the start of the Ukraine war as the two countries face international sanctions.

Former President Biden should have never allowed South Africa's Ebrahim Rasool to enter the country, let alone approve his service as ambassador to Washington. President Trump should correct Biden’s mistake and demonstrate that the ANC’s brand of anti-Western foreign policy will no longer be tolerated.