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The document discusses China's involvement in selling weapons, specifically Silkworm missiles, to Iran. The Reagan administration has expressed concerns over China's role as Iran's main arms supplier, while China denies these allegations. The document provides evidence that new Chinese arms shipments, including sophisticated anti-ship missiles, have arrived in Tehran. It also mentions that Iran has sent military personnel to China for missile training. The motive behind China's involvement is primarily financial, but it also aims to counter Moscow's efforts to establish relations with Iran. The Reagan administration has protested China's actions and has postponed trade measures that would have allowed China to purchase American technology.
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trade measures that would have it," says one frustrated Iran." In particular, China
have allowed China to buy State Department official. is trying to parry Moscow's
faster American mainframe China's main motive is the latest efforts to court the
computers and more accu- old-fashioned one: money, Teheran mullahs. Beijing
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For months the Reagan Ad-
ministration has protested
China's role as one of Iran's
main arms suppliers, while
Beijing has denied the allega-
tion. Last week Administra-
don officials said they have ev-
idenco that new Chinese arms
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have arrived in Tehran since
early October. More than 100
p.ow $ilkworrn, missiles, the
type that were used in recent
attacks on Kuwaiti shipping,
are also said to be destined for
Iran as part of two arms deals,
one for $1.3 billion in 1983 and
another for $600 million early
last year.
A spokesman for the Peo-
ple's Mujahedin, an Iranian re-
sistance group, said last week
that China not only continues
to sell Silkworms to the Aya-
tollah Khomeini, but that last
year more than 100 Revolu-
tionary Guards and Iranian
military men traveled to China
for missile training. The
spokesman said some of these
trainees serve in the 26th Sal-
man Missile Brigade, the unit
responsible for the Silkworm
attacks on Kuwait launched
from the Iranian-occupied Fao
peninsula in Iraq.
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