by Paul Dragu, The New American:
Emerging reports suggest the war in Iran has already turned into a proxy conflict between the United States and Israel on one side, and Iran, with help from China and Russia, on the other. If these reports are accurate, they align with a years-long history of cooperation between these Eastern nations, including in Ukraine.
Western media is reporting that China is helping Iran rebuild its missile systems and giving Iran location data on American military assets in the Middle East. This comes just weeks after news broke that Russia was been providing Iran with similar intelligence on U.S. asset locations. And just this week, Israeli media reported that Russia is providing Iran with intelligence for targeting energy infrastructure in Israel.
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History of Cooperation
The cooperation between Iran, Russia, and China goes back years. The three nations have signed several cooperation agreements within the last few years, some of them in the area of defense. They also already have a track record of cooperating in military campaigns. In the summer of 2024, the Council on Foreign Relations’ magazine, Foreign Affairs, published an article detailing how Iran, China, and North Korea were helping Russia in Ukraine. The authors wrote, in an article titled “The Axis of Upheaval: How America’s Adversaries Are Uniting to Overturn the Global Order,” that the Russians had recently carried out an attack “with weapons fitted with technology from China, missiles from North Korea, and drones from Iran.”
The British outlet The Telegraph reported on Friday that it reviewed shipping data suggesting China has sent four vessels full of sodium perchlorate, used to produce missile propellant, to Iranian ports since the conflict began. The Telegraph’s analysis, reviewed by experts, suggests that the vessels could have “transported enough sodium perchlorate to produce hundreds of ballistic missiles.”
The neoconservative Washington, D.C.-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) endorsed this report.
Chinese Connection
The U.S. Defense Department said, via the front website Indo-Pacific Defense FORUM, that it’s looking into whether Iranian missiles that have landed in Israel have a “Made in China” sticker. “U.S. experts are determining whether fragments from Iranian missiles recently launched at Israel and toward several Gulf states indicate that the weapons were manufactured with Chinese technology and components,” the FORUM reported.
On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that Chinese tech firms — “some with links to the People’s Liberation Army” — are publicly marketing and selling detailed intelligence online, including data concerning “equipment at U.S. bases, positions and movements of American carrier strike groups, granular breakdowns of how U.S. aircraft (including B-2 stealth bombers) are assembling for strikes on Tehran, and other real-time insights into U.S. operations.” According to the article, this commercial activity provides Iran with “valuable battlefield awareness of U.S. forces.”
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