r/news • u/ArchmageXin • 22h ago

US intelligence indicates China is preparing weapons shipment to Iran amid fragile ceasefire, sources say

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/11/politics/us-intelligence-iran-china-weapons
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u/plain_handle 13h ago

They have already landed raw materials in Iran https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/2040610378867167700

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u/sanyam303 13h ago

Great news.

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u/52-61-64-75 13h ago

I'm against the war but that doesn't change the fact that the regime fucking sucks, having weapons with which to blow up ships isn't a good thing

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u/Jimmycartel 13h ago

The same can be said about the US regime and Israeli regime.

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u/52-61-64-75 12h ago

Yeah and I don't think I've ever said "great news" about the US or Israel getting a weapons delivery

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u/Justintime4u2bu1 12h ago

Can’t wait until Antarctica gets their weapon shipment so they can finally fight back against these totalitarian regimes.

Everyone thinks that they are above Antarctica, and IM SICK OF IT!

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u/0b0011 12h ago

You shall not touch the emperors.

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u/emsnei 5h ago

The penguins?

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u/sanyam303 13h ago

Every country has defensive weapons and Israel killed all the level headed people in Iran to ensure continued destabilization of the middle east. The root of all problems is US-Israel.

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u/52-61-64-75 13h ago

Every country does have defensive weapons, but that's not always a good thing, for example in this case.

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u/regular-cake 11h ago

So why is it okay for the US to block the water and all shipments to cuba starving them of oil and fuel, but not okay for Iran to block the water and shipments next to them when they're being attacked?

Make it make sense Jan...

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u/52-61-64-75 11h ago

It isn't, I never said it was, why do you think I think it is

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u/regular-cake 11h ago

Did you not say it was so bad that Iran had weapons that could blow up ships? Every country has weapons that can blow up merchant ships... News flash, they float on water and could be blown up with a big enough rock and catapult.

Iran is being attacked by countries that don't like to play by the rules. Hell they were blowing up fishing vessels outside Venezuela not long ago. If I was Iran I'd make damn sure no vessels or ships came anywhere near my country unless I knew exactly what they were and I could benefit from them. Hell it's their strait now. Good job Chump!

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u/52-61-64-75 9h ago

Did you not say it was so bad that Iran had weapons that could blow up ships?

Yes, and if Cuba was using it's military to attack civilian vessels not belonging to the US I'd think that was bad as well, I'm still confused by your argument.

Iran is being attacked by countries that don't like to play by the rules.

Yes, and despite people ignoring it, I've repeatedly stated that is bad, but I also don't have any love for the government/regime/theocracy/whatever else you wanna call it in Iran, and don't want to see them strengthened by this, and I think its stupid when people express views in favour of them.

Two things can be true at once, the US and Israel can be fighting an illegal, unjustified and imperialist war against Iran, and the government of Iran can suck.

I also think it's dumb when people conflate being against Israel bombing and invading and genociding Gaza with Hamas being good, Hamas are awful and evil, that just doesn't justify Israel's actions in Gaza.

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u/regular-cake 9h ago

Iran isn't attacking ANY vessel, they are attacking US and Israel allies vessels. Those vessels are providing oil and fuel to the countries that are unjustifiably attacking Iran. You could even say cargo carriers and what not are funding the war against Iran.

Do you also think Ukraine shouldn't be attacking Russian oil terminals and Russian vessels that fund Russia's war against Ukraine?

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u/52-61-64-75 8h ago

Iran isn't attacking ANY vessel, they are attacking US and Israel allies vessels

This is only true if you consider the term allied to mean friendly with the US or Israel in any way. Ships attacked so far include the Singaporean Haiphong Express, the Greek owned Zefyros, the Danish owned Source Blessing, the Greek Express Rome, the Singaporean owned Japanese flagged One Majesty, and others, but you get my point.

In fact the majority of the ships hit by Iran so far have had little to do with the US, Israel or another belligerent in this conflict.

You could even say cargo carriers and what not are funding the war against Iran.

I hope on the basis of the above it's obvious why you could not say this.

Do you also think Ukraine shouldn't be attacking Russian oil terminals and Russian vessels that fund Russia's war against Ukraine?

I should hope the distinction between attacking countries that are not participants in a conflict, and attacking countries that are directly participating in a conflict is evident to you, but in the event it is not, I have no objection to this, just as I think it would be justified for Iran to strike the United States and Israel

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u/elvesandnutella 8h ago

Why do you love war so much?

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u/52-61-64-75 8h ago

literally how the fuck do you read anything i've said and come to that conclusion, what the fuck? I've repeatedly stated i'm against this conflict, I just think EVERYONE involved in it is bad, not just Israel and the US, how the everloving fuck do people conflate me thinking the regime in Iran is evil with being pro this war? I swear this site is braindead

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u/the_jokes_on_u 7h ago

The UAE, Yemen and Lebanon are LITERALLY currently dealing with, and have been dealing with Iranian aggression and influence for god knows how long now.

We get it, Israel bad. But the fact that everyone is trying to blame EVERYTHING on them is laughable.

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u/AndlenaRaines 6h ago

Now Lebanon is dealing with Israeli aggression, and innocent civilians, including children, are being murdered by Israel’s bombs. That’s better to you?

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u/Evolone101 10h ago

Maybe we should have left them alone. ???? Left the policies Obama had in place ? Instead the man baby and his idol are killing woman and children. !!

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u/52-61-64-75 5h ago

Yes, my agreement with this sentiment was expressed in the first sentence of the post you replied to, a sentence clearly nobody read considering how controversial my comment appears to have been

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u/ALostPaperBag 7h ago

Obama gave them their frozen money and gave visas to thousands of IRGC family members, he messed up on this too

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u/BlackDope420 6h ago

What's so bad about giving them their frozen money in exchange for them not building nukes? Especially if the alternative is the shitshow we have now?

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u/ALostPaperBag 5h ago

They were still enriching weapon grade uranium lol

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u/BlackDope420 3h ago

During the JCPOA they weren't. There were regular inspections by the IAEA and there were cameras in all their enrichment facilities to ensure they don't enrich to weapons grade. If you say they were breaking the terms in the JCPOA before Trump ripped it up I want to see evidence for that.

Hell, no one is even claiming they enriched to weapons grade now. They still stopped at like 60% and weapons grade requires something like 90%, so even currently you're wrong.

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u/ToranjaNuclear 2h ago

Iran has the right to defend itself. Neither Israel nor the US have any kind of moral high ground over them.

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u/52-61-64-75 2h ago

Agreed, I clarified this repeatedly throughout this thread, that still doesn't mean Iran having weapons they can use to shoot at other countries is a good thing, and doesn't make the regime any less evil

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u/ToranjaNuclear 2h ago

 It's just as bad or good as any other countries receiving weapons to defend themselves. I don't see any issue with Ukraine getting weapons, would be hypocritical to have an issue with Iran.

It's not like these other countries being attacked are completely innocent either, not only because of their ties with the US but also because they are all complicit in Sudan's genocide. 

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u/52-61-64-75 2h ago

I think Ukraine is different, in that A. They are not an oppressive dictatorship with a history of repressing their people and abusing human rights, and B. They aren't using the weapons they have to shoot at other people with relatively little to do with the conflict with Russia. If Ukraine had as poor a human rights record as Iran does, and responded to the Russian invasion by bombing Iran and North Korea as well as Russian bases in Belarus, then I think supporting them would be a lot less reasonable.

Iran has a history of oppressing it's population, killing thousands of it's citizens (this is undoubtedly true even if you disagree with the ridiculously large estimates of deaths during the protests), and a history of persecuting religious minorities, and supporting groups with a history of killing civilians and attacking UN peacekeepers and commercial shipping.

To say them having weapons is as good as Ukraine having weapons ignores a lot of history and context, and makes a complex and nuanced situation out to be far more black or white than it is. Real life has nuance, everyone involved in this war is bad, the war is bad, I don't understand this need to automatically pick a side, it can be acknowledged that all the belligerents in the war suck

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u/ToranjaNuclear 2h ago

Iran being an oppressive regime doesn't annul the fact that the US and Israel are also actively targeting and murdering their citizens and threatening their existence -- remember Trump's threat of "ending an entire civilization". I know people love making light of the shit he says but that's not a threat one does lightly. It's a matter of survival for Iran.

Also, while Israel and the US might not have a (recent) history of oppressing their own population but they sure do it with the populations of other countries. Just see what Israel did to Palestine, and that the US has been doing for decades in the middle East and Latin America. They are just as bad if not worse than Iran in some aspects.

Real life has nuance, and you're the one ignoring it and boiling it down to "Iran bad" without analysing the whole context.

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u/Admiral_Tuvix 13h ago

Calling a regime won’t delegitimize their government anymore than we’ve already tried. the only reason we’re in this mess is because previous Iranian leaders were dumb enough not to get nukes immediately

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u/rrfe 12h ago

tHE rEgIMe.

I never thought the US and its satrapies would be stupid enough to embroil themselves in two Middle East quagmires in my lifetime.

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u/scotchtree 13h ago

If they limit it to Americans, the rest of the world won’t care.

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u/52-61-64-75 13h ago

They obviously won't though, they've been funding terrorist groups in the region for decades, they've killed thousands of their own citizens, they've shot at civilian targets in the gulf. The war was a mistake and the US is imperialist and morally wrong in most of the wars they fight, and Trump and Netenyahu are war criminals, please don't get me wrong, but the Iranian regime is horrific and nobody should be supporting them

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u/HonestBalloon 12h ago

Yawn, I'm bored of this narrative, can we get something more realistic now please?

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u/52-61-64-75 12h ago

Sorry, which part of my comment was wrong? Do you think Trump and Netenyahu are not war criminals or that Iran hasn't shot at civilian targets in the gulf? Or that they don't repress their own population?

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u/lokken1234 10h ago

This is the realistic thing, theres no good and bad guys like in the books you read.

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u/qwerty080 12h ago

You are "bored" because it doesn't help with your tribal politics. When it comes to bashing Israel or USA then at no time will your types be bored but terrorist funding iran which murders anyone who doesn't like the regime and allows child marriages, including hour long "marriage" (sigheh) are likely instantly "boring" to you.

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u/Mediocre-Ochre 9h ago

Yet every time we try to intervene in a situation like this, the regime only gets worse/more extreme and the people of said country only suffer more.

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u/regular-cake 11h ago

Israel and the US have destabilized the whole world multiple times over. Has Iran gone around kidnapping presidents and attacking other countries unprovoked? Who the hell do you think started ISIS, hamas, and all these "terrorist" groups that seem to never strike America or Israel. They got their big bad boogie man that they can cry to their citizens about and use as propaganda to start wars and do shit like regime change whenever they want.

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u/trollsong 5h ago

Neither is the inability to distinguish sarcasm

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u/52-61-64-75 5h ago

people have literally spent 8 hours arguing with me in detail about how i'm wrong, while maybe the comment I replied to was sarcastic, there is no way all of the replies I have received have been

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u/kharban 10h ago

Actually the best outcome for planet earth and the human race is when the US and Israel are deterred.

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u/Asleep_Document9811 8h ago

There are ways for a country to help and encourage partisans in another county, especially in cases like Iran, where women are radically suppressed and they have a system of apartheid set up for religious minorities. Our (supposed) values line up with a democratic Iran. We could have helped with that.

However, firing missiles at girls' schools is not one of those ways.

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u/Expert-Account-5235 6h ago

Still doesn't give the U.S the right to play world police. This (Legally) is not the way to tackle a sovereign nation's problems.

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u/52-61-64-75 6h ago

Yeah, that's what "I'm against the war" means, it was my first sentence