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the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,

about rumor talk that Iran is re-arming,

using weapons from Russia via Belarus as a cutout,

using weapons systems from China, using North Korea as a cutout.

Mr. Sia, Jonathan, comments on all these matters, especially China. Much more of this to nigh.

Here's Jonathan.

There are different angles to look at this, and you have to really differentiate between

China's relationship with Iran as opposed to Moscow-slash-Belah's relationship with Iran,

and then you have North Korea.

And, of course, you have to look at the timeline of these things.

If there were to be U.S. sanctions, how would that implicate it?

So to give you a brief overview, what we've seen so far is China provides an economic lifeline

for the regime in Tehran.

We haven't seen a very high-level military cooperation like we've seen with Russia.

So in the past, of course, Iran has supplied Russia with not only the drones, Shahid drones

to attack Ukrainian

infrastructure, but also the technology for them to build it in-house.

And since Russia has done that, they've been increasingly less reliant on Iran because they just

have this technology within Russia.

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