RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇨🇳🇮🇷 China is arming Iran mid-war, with up to 400 shoulder-fired missile launchers arriving within WEEKS -Three sources say Iran signed a $60-70 million deal for 300 to 400 Chinese QW-12 and FN-16 MANPADS, shoulder-launched missiles built to kill low-flying aircraft, helicopters, and drones -The route matters as much as the weapons: deliveries fly from Urumqi in western China, then transit through PAKISTAN to Iran, with overland routes explored to dodge disruption -The middleman is a Hong Kong-based intermediary, Zhongqing Baoshang International Investment, giving Beijing its layer of distance -The denials came fast: China’s Foreign Ministry calls the repo

🇨🇳🇮🇷 China is arming Iran mid-war, with up to 400 shoulder-fired missile launchers arriving within WEEKS

-Three sources say Iran signed a $60-70 million deal for 300 to 400 Chinese QW-12 and FN-16 MANPADS, shoulder-launched missiles built to kill low-flying aircraft, helicopters, and drones

-The route matters as much as the weapons: deliveries fly from Urumqi in western China, then transit through PAKISTAN to Iran, with overland routes explored to dodge disruption

-The middleman is a Hong Kong-based intermediary, Zhongqing Baoshang International Investment, giving Beijing its layer of distance

-The denials came fast: China’s Foreign Ministry calls the report “completely groundless,” and Pakistan’s military brands its role “absolutely concocted and false”

-The logic is exposed by the war itself: fixed air-defense batteries kept dying to American strikes, while MANPADS scatter among small teams and relocate constantly, nearly impossible to hunt

-Reuters previously reported Iran near a separate Chinese deal for anti-ship cruise missiles

Trump accepted Beijing’s assurances it wasn’t arming Tehran; his own Pentagon testified otherwise, and now the contract details are in print.

Hundreds of dispersed launchers won’t stop ballistic missiles or B-2s, but they raise the price of every low-altitude sortie and drone pass America flies.

Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniel

— @MarioNawfal Jul 29, 2026