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Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/middleeast/iran-rebuilding-ballistic-weapons-program-intl
Western Intelligence Says Iran Is Rearming despite UN Sanctions, with China's Help
(CNN) Melissa Bell - Iran appears to be stepping up the rebuilding of its ballistic missile program, despite the reintroduction last month of UN sanctions that ban arms sales to the country and ballistic missile activity. European intelligence sources say several shipments of sodium perchlorate, the main precursor in the production of the solid propellant that powers Iran's mid-range conventional missiles, have arrived from China to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas since Sep. 29. Several of the cargo ships and Chinese entities involved are under sanctions from the U.S.