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2026-03-09 China-Japan-Koreas

WP: Two Iranian ships departed from China with raw materials for ballistic missiles

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Posted by badanov 2026-03-09 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1842 views ] Top
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1 “Submarines lived by a simple motto: There are two kinds of ships, submarines…and targets.”

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2026-03-09 05:21|| 2026-03-09 05:21|| Front Page Top

2 Raw materials or parts for a factory that is now slag run by a factory overseer that is hiding from Mossad.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-03-09 05:57|| 2026-03-09 05:57|| Front Page Top

3 Anything is submersible, once.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-03-09 06:59|| 2026-03-09 06:59|| Front Page Top

4 The sub(s) will probably wait until the freighters enter the Indian Ocean, giving the captains a chance to dock somewhere and be interned

Posted by Chantry 2026-03-09 09:56|| 2026-03-09 09:56|| Front Page Top

5 ... giving the captains a chance to dock somewhere and be interned

The ships dock, the cargo is stolen or seized and ends up for sale on eBay and Temu.

Posted by SteveS 2026-03-09 10:45|| 2026-03-09 10:45|| Front Page Top

6 A Russian media source, from the Washington Post
of March 7 [not 8, dateline issue?] reports:

left a Chinese port this week that stores chemicals
can carry containers

Some guy [Miad Maleki] that might once have been somebody, and an expert [Isaac B. Kardon, Ph.D. (孔适海博士) is senior fellow for China studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. He is concurrently Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and was formerly Assistant Professor at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC), where he served as a research faculty member in the China Maritime Studies Institute.] suggest the two ships might be carrying fuel and parts.

Prob not actional intelligence.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-09 16:07|| 2026-03-09 16:07|| Front Page Top

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