{"id":21208,"date":"2026-04-12T13:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/china-preparing-delivery-of-new-air-defense-systems-to-iran-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:20:32","slug":"china-preparing-delivery-of-new-air-defense-systems-to-iran-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/china-preparing-delivery-of-new-air-defense-systems-to-iran-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"China preparing delivery of new air defense systems to Iran, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran in the next few weeks, following over a month of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran&#8217;s military and missile capabilities, BLN reported Saturday. The outlet cited three&#8239;people familiar with recent U.S. intelligence assessments. Two of these sources told the outlet that Beijing could route&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5827443-china-preparing-delivery-of-new-air-defense-systems-to-iran-report-says\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran in the next few weeks, following over a month of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran&#8217;s military and missile capabilities, BLN reported Saturday. The outlet cited three&#8239;people familiar with recent U.S. intelligence assessments. Two of these sources told the outlet that Beijing could route&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}