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Iran's military industry was born under the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1973, the Iran Electronics Industries (IEI) was founded to organize efforts to assemble and repair foreign-delivered weapons. [3] [4] Most of Iran's weapons before the Islamic revolution were imported from the United
Iran established an arms development program during the Iran–Iraq War to counter the weapons embargo imposed on it by the U.S. and its Western allies. Since 1993, Iran has manufactured its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles, radars, boats, submarines, unmanned aerial vehicles, and fighter planes.
The missile is a reverse engineered and upgraded variant of China's Silkworm anti-ship missile [107] Zafar: Anti-ship missile: N/A Iran: Light ASCM for IRGC navy [108] Abu Mahdi: Anti ship missile N/A Iran: Long-range ASCM [109] Ballistic missiles Tondar-69: Rocket artillery: N/A China Iran: Oghab: Rocket artillery: N/A: 1985–present China Iran
Companies from Iran, Israel, China, Russia and the United States will showcase military equipment at an arms expo in Hanoi in December, Vietnam's defence ministry said on Tuesday, a rare case of ...
During the Cold War, there were unofficial trade relations between Iran and China that have steadily increased over time. Trade reached $1.627 billion in the 1980s and $15 billion in 2007. In 2001, the volume of trade between Iran and China stood at roughly $3.3 billion, [69] and in 2005, the volume of China-Iranian trade hit $9.2 billion. [70]
The U.S. said the sale would support the modernization of Taiwan's armed forces and the maintenance of a credible defense. ... China says that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan are interference in its ...
This alarmed the United States Congress, which strengthened a 1968 law on arms exports in 1976 and renamed it the Arms Export Control Act. Still, the United States continued to sell large amounts of weapons to Iran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
China has strongly condemned the latest $2bn (£1.5bn) arms sale approved by the US for Taiwan, declaring it a threat to regional peace and promising decisive counter-measures in response.