Feb. 27, 2026
China is delivering “offensive” weapons as well as additional “defensive” arms to Iran, with the US on the cusp of launching an attack on the Islamic Republic, three officials familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.
One Arab official familiar with the deliveries described the offensive weapons as “small” systems. Another regional intelligence official said Beijing had sent loitering munitions, or Kamikaze drones, to the Islamic Republic.
A second Arab official who spoke with MEE confirmed the deliveries of “offensive” weapons as well as the air-defence systems.
Oh, also, the way they got past a great deal of the air defence last time was taking out larger stationary air defence systems with smuggled in anti-tank missiles on stands using starlink and mobile internet. US battlespace maps show all known radar signatures, so this large covert operation (Iran’s border gets extremely mountainous and porous, really impossible to lock down currently, it’s not a simple task to put it mildly) limited them to their ambush air defenses that at least keep the planes out. The F-35s were needed to extend the range of the standoff weapons. TONS of refuels. If the aircraft carriers are hit with anything we are looking at an insanely long distance for these sorties in order to damage Iran. The longer this goes on the harder it gets for the US. The strait of hormuz is a huge economic chokepoint a real keystone of US financial power. I have no idea why they would risk this. Are they insane? Are they going to use nuclear weapons?