The Russian media recently reported that China has agreed to sell 24 Jian-10 (J-10, 殲十) fighter aircraft to Iran. This will not be the first time that China has sold military aircraft to Iran, and the amount of money involved in this deal is not particularly high. Some people think that the reason China has made this transaction public is to pressure the US into not selling its advanced F-16 C/D fighter aircraft to Taiwan.The US has been unhappy with China's arms sales to Iran for a long time.
The most important reason for this is that the US suspects that after Iran receives these Chinese-made weapons, including Hongying-5 (HN-5, 紅纓五號) surface-to-air missiles, armor-piercing ammunition, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, rocket artillery and sniper rifles, they will resell the equipment to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
This would mean that Chinese-made weapons might become a threat to US military aircraft.
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