Authored by News Desk via The Cradle,
China has sent Iran around 1,300 shipments of missile and drone parts this year through the end of June, as the Islamic Republic faced a brutal US-Israeli campaign against it, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 23 September.
One of the shipments arrived the same day the April ceasefire was announced, according to Iranian customs data cited by the outlet.
It carried a shipment for the Iranian Defense Ministry that included electronic components used to make parts for drones and missile guidance systems.
Another Chinese shipment two days later carried drone parts for Iran, worth more than $6 million, according to WSJ.
WSJ writes that there has been a surge in Chinese cargo flights to Iran over the past year, coinciding with several new Iranian warnings.
Tehran’s military recently said it received intelligence of upcoming US attacks.
After the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June 2025, Hebrew media began expressing concern over Chinese military support for Iran.
The concern lay with Chinese-Iranian cooperation on the manufacture of surface-to-surface missiles, Yedioth Ahronoth said in August last year.
Since the start of the latest illegal war by Washington and Tel Aviv, Iran has inflicted unprecedented damage on US military installations across the region.
Israel, which uses heavy military censorship to cover up losses, was also heavily targeted.
The Islamic Republic recently warned that new weapons will be used in the event of a renewed escalation by the US or Israel.
“Iran is prepared for a prolonged war,” said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesman Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi this week.
He added that “If a new aggression takes place, there will definitely be significant changes in our defense and our counteroffensive.”
“We will definitely bring new weapons with new capabilities into the battlefield, and the world will be surprised,” Mohebbi went on to say. “We will definitely change the geography of the war.”