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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]
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.
Iran's military industry manufactures and exports various types of arms and military equipment. [1] Iran's military industry, under the command of Iran's Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics , is composed of the following main components: [ 2 ]
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 ...
The Trump administration vowed on Wednesday to impose the "full force" of U.S. sanctions on any international arms manufacturers who deal with Iran once Washington sees a United Nations arms ...
The missile is a reverse engineered and upgraded variant of China's Silkworm anti-ship missile [103] Zafar: Anti-ship missile: N/A Iran: Light ASCM for IRGC navy [104] Abu Mahdi: Anti ship missile N/A Iran: Long-range ASCM [105] Ballistic missiles Tondar-69: Rocket artillery: N/A China Iran: Oghab: Rocket artillery: N/A: 1985–present China Iran
China announced sanctions Sunday on five American defense-related companies in response to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and U.S sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals. The sanctions will ...
[1] [2] Most of Iran's weapons before the Islamic revolution were imported from the United States and Europe. Between 1971 and 1975, the Shah went on a buying spree, ordering $8 billion in weapons from the United States alone. This alarmed many in the U.S., which strengthened a 1968 law on arms exports in 1976 and renamed it the Arms Export ...