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Arms exports began to steadily decline in the 1990s yet China engaged in $400 million worth of arms transfer agreements with Iran. Sales increased to $600 million from 1997 to 2000. On average, it is estimated that China has made $171 million per year in arms exports to Iran since 1982.
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 ]
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.
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 ...
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.. The ...
The missile is a reverse engineered and upgraded variant of China's Silkworm anti-ship missile [98] Zafar: Anti-ship missile: N/A Iran: Light ASCM for IRGC navy [99] Abu Mahdi: Anti ship missile N/A Iran: Long-range ASCM [100] Ballistic missiles Tondar-69: Rocket artillery: N/A China Iran: Oghab: Rocket artillery: N/A: 1985–present China Iran
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday it strongly opposed a U.S. decision to add multiple Chinese entities to its export control list over Russia-related issues. The ...
[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 ...