Iran reprints his missile program: a ship with a key component arrived from China

The Golbon vessel has already been anchored near the Iranian port of Bandar-Abbas. CNN writes about it. According to two sources in European intelligence, the Golbon ship has left Chinese port Taizan three weeks ago, mostly loaded with a 1000-ton batch of sodium perchlorate-the main precursor in the production of solid fuel used in conventional Medium Di-range missiles.

This amount of sodium perchlorate can allow you to produce enough fuel for approximately 260 solid fuel rocket engines for Iranian rockets "Habar Shekan" or 200 Hadzha Casam Ballistic missiles. Supply is carried out at a time when Iran has suffered a number of regional failures and its allies have been defeated: the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria and the loss of Hezbolla in Lebanon.

After the strike of Israeli on Iranian missile facilities in October, some Western experts believed that it could take at least a year before Iran could restore the production of solid fuel. But this delivery indicates that Iran is not far from the production of his rockets or that he can already return to him.

Sources note that the cargo was purchased on behalf of the Procurement Department of the organization of self -sufficient jihad (SSJO), part of the Iranian body responsible for the development of Iranian ballistic missiles. The second vessel, Jairan, has not yet been loaded or left China, both vessels are operated by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (Irisl), CNN sources reported. Jairan has to cross the remaining 1000 tons to Iran.

Golbon left the port of Thaychans and went to Iran on January 21. The supply of sodium perchlorate itself is not illegal and does not violate Western sanctions. But it can be chemically converted into ammonium perchlorat - fuel and oxidizer, which is a controlled product.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Mao Nin Nin, told reporters in January that she was not aware of the details of this case, but China always obey her export control laws, as well as the country's international obligations. Both ships, and Golbon, and Jairan are under US sanctions.

Meanwhile, China remains a diplomatic and economic ally of Iran, who suffered from sanctions, condemning "unilateral" sanctions against this country and greeting Tehran in international blocks under the leadership of Beijing and Moscow, such as Shanghai Cooperation and Brix. Recall that in early February, US President Donald Trump said he had left the instructions to "destroy" Iran if the representatives of this country would kill him.