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[Regnum] Two Iranian vessels departed China for Iran carrying ballistic missile fuel.
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This was reported on March 8 by The Washington Post.
Loaded vessels belonging to Iran's state-owned Shipping Lines left a Chinese port this week that stores chemicals including sodium perchlorate, a key precursor to solid rocket fuel.
Shabdis and Barzin can carry up to 6,500 and 14,500 six-meter-long containers.
As American expert Isaac Cardon noted, China, given the escalating situation in the Middle East, could have found some excuse to keep the ships in port, but did not do so.
"This is a conscious political choice during an active war in which Beijing publicly calls for restraint," the publication quoted him as saying.
Former US Treasury Department official Miad Maleki expressed confidence that Iranian ships were transporting sodium perchlorate from China.
On March 7, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar announced that India had provided asylum to the Iranian Navy's IRIS Lavan. The crew had requested assistance due to technical difficulties, and India, as a humanitarian measure, provided it. This occurred three days before a US submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka
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