Source: International Business Times
File photo of a Russian-made 9K338 "Igla-S" man-portable air-defence (MANPAD) surface-to-air missile launcher in Caracas. China has reportedly supplied such missiles to Iran. UAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images While Xi Jinping was personally assuring Donald Trump that China would not arm Iran under any circumstances — a pledge Trump posted to Truth Social around July 24 — a Hong Kong intermediary called Zhongqing Baoshang International Investment was finalizing a contract to deliver between 300 and 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles to Tehran, routed by air from Urumqi in western China to Pakistan and then overland into Iran, according to a Reuters investigation published July 29.
