A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, an operation at sea aimed at blocking Tehran from rebuilding its military arsenal.

The Wall Street Journal says the operation was a rare maritime interdiction aimed at disrupting Iran’s military procurement efforts.

China’s independent oil refiners are boosting their intake of Iranian crude from onshore tanks and ships idling at sea after Beijing issued a fresh round of import quotas late last month.

A U.S. special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing U.S. officials.

Less than six months after the Israeli and US airstrikes inside Iranian territory, Beijing’s ties with Tehran have not wavered despite Iran’s nuclear and economic setbacks from the war.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomes foreign ministers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Tuesday. - Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Anadolu/Getty Images Weeks after his country was battered ...

Iran’s first Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) counterterrorism drill is less about joint military strength and more about sending a signal: Tehran wants the world to see it as strategically relevant,

Slowing imports from China, driven by government quotas and US sanctions on Chinese entities, have pushed the volume of Iranian oil held in floating storage to 52 million barrels, the highest level since May 2023,

When Russia sought assistance from China, North Korea and Iran amid its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, some Western officials expressed concern about the formation of a new axis against Western countries. But none of these countries came to Iran's aid ...

Iran’s crude exports to China have seen a notable rise following Beijing’s latest round of import quotas, with independent Chinese refiners—known as “teapots”—increasing their intake from floating storage and port reserves.

By bnm Tehran bureau & bnm Gulf bureau Iran, Saudi Arabia and China held the third meeting of their joint trilateral committee in Tehran on December 9 to follow up on the Beijing agreement, with the three countries issuing a joint statement calling for an immediate halt to Israeli aggression in Palestine,