Illustrative image. (Tasnim News Agency)
President Donald Trump on April 29 said that the United States knows where Iran has deployed new military equipment during the ongoing ceasefire, and will destroy it quickly should war resume.
“They may have brought in some light stuff during the ceasefire, and we know exactly where it is, so it will be knocked out within the first 15 minutes,” Trump told reporters.
Trump also said that Iran has moved closer to Washington’s position in talks, but has still not gone far enough with regard to the nuclear file.
“They’ve come a long way. The question is whether or not they’re going to go far enough. At this moment, there will never be a deal unless they agree that there will be no nuclear weapons,” he said.
He went on to claim that talks with Iran are ongoing, while not specifying if they’re being held through mediators, as is assumed to be the case. He also argued again that it is not necessary for his negotiators to fly all the way to mediating Pakistan in order to hold talks that can be conducted over the phone.
Trump’s claim that Iran received new weapons amid the ceasefire is not surprising. Shortly after the ceasefire entered into effect, CNN reported, citing U.S. intelligence assessments, that China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within weeks.
Two sources with knowledge on the assessment told the network that the systems China is preparing to transfer to Iran are man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS). Nevertheless, the sources noted Chinese efforts to route the shipments through third countries to mask their true origin.
Later when the U.S. military seized the cargo ship TOUSKA in line with its blockade on Iranian port, Trump hinted that the vessel was carrying weapons.
The ship had “a gift from China” which “wasn’t very nice,” Trump told CNBC at the time. “I was a little surprised,” he added, saying that he thought he had an “understanding” with China’s President Xi Jinping.
What Trump referred to as “light stuff” in his latest remarks could very well be MANPADS. The Iranian had notable success in using such systems during the war.
Days before the ceasefire entered into effect, MANPADS were reportedly used to shoot down an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet then an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jet of the United States Air Force over Iran.
While shipping new weapons to Iran via the sea is currently not an option, doing so is still possible with ease. For China, for example, weapons like MANPAD could simply be shipped by land, through Afghanistan. The Taliban have been very vocal about their support for the Islamic Republic since the start of the war.
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iran has weapons factories. do you think they just stopped production ? the new talking point is that it is easy to begin a war but hard to end. if you stop and withdraw all wars end in weeks. any lie that you might buy will be used upon the slave class.
reject trump and his counterparts. charles “king of the brittians” gets a standing ovation in the us congress by requesting more war. simple to stop war, stop ! it really works !
how are manpads supposed to shoot down fighter jets? are they dumb to fly low enough or are the iranians sitting in mountain ranges the us has to fly over?
plenty of low flying aircraft, drones, refuelers, helicopters, etc. can be shot down with manpads.
china needs to be sending a lot more than just “light stuff”. what happened to all the air defense china supposedly sent before the latest outbreak? we haven’t heard the braggadocios us talking about destroying any systems or the iranians using any successfully or unsuccessfully.
chinese air defences seem to be similar to russians. exist when they are sold but never materialise in the country of the customer. maybe china has the same illness as russia. trying to appeal to the usa by denying their supposed friends and allies weapons the usa feel troubled about.
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russia sending iran many weapons and humanitarian aid via caspian’s sea–my lgbt peasant vanya tantrums
your boyfriend in moscow needs to give the gift of nukes, not confetti.
let me make one thing clear, under no circumstances arrogant zionist hillbilly will ever be allowed to win a war against khorasan, even if you could. your legacy don’t mean shit and will be erased in 10 years, khorasan will be victorious many centuries. best to retreat and keep your army. israel will be no more and jerusalem will be liberated.
wasnt that the name of some fictional terrorist group the usa used as excuse for sending weapons to them while in reality sending them straight to al quaida.
just more bluff and bluster from trump.
wave of strikes on iran: u.s. central command (centcom) has reportedly prepared a plan for a “short and powerful” wave of airstrikes on iranian infrastructure to break the current diplomatic deadlock.
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i thought that may be the case all along there, goober.
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to break the dead lock trump is going to attack tonight istanbul
the us has deployed more than 30 aerial refueling tankers to the middle east in recent days to prepare for possible american support of israeli strikes against iran, two sources told cnn.
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turks are just like gulf arabs only pretend enemys of isreal. erdogan behind the szenes makes great deals with isreal. and i dont blame him its what allmost the entire planet does. for whatever reason iran descided to fight isreal while the arabs refuse to do so has brought them into a very bad spot.
isreal has positioned themselves before the current war as a major logistichub for the gulf arabs, india and even china.
if the russian administration wasn’t so open to israel and trumps utter bullshit the russians could easily supply iran from the north
be rest assured just like 90% of the planet if iran would be really able to hurt isreal seriously russia would not supply iran from the north but attack it.
yes, if that were to happen then you’d like to think that an armed squadron of rf su-35’s would hit the kremlin hard in response.
– especially in the locale of everyone’s favourite kgb personality – long live the angry patriots’ club ! 🃏
well judging by ukraine and europe the most patriotic people are mostly pro isreal as well. only some rare leftist are against isreal cause they kill muslims. ans leftist love muslims. but most of them still love isreal more. but some are exceptions.
trump: blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda…where’s my roy cohn? waaa waaa…
so what… i confirm that israel and the us received new weapons during the ceasefire.
everything stated by trump should be presented as biased assertion unless independently confirmed.
i believe in a more direct and less subtle approach:
everything they say is a lie until proven otherwise. history has proven this to be true.