{"id":6658,"date":"2026-05-12T17:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:39:31","slug":"china-chastises-anti-iran-us-sanctions-as-illegal-unilateral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/china-chastises-anti-iran-us-sanctions-as-illegal-unilateral\/","title":{"rendered":"China chastises anti-Iran US sanctions as \u2018illegal, unilateral\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"title\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">China voiced strong opposition to US sanctions, calling the curbs on three China-based companies, which the US claimed enabled Iran\u2019s military operations, illegal and unilateral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tehran-IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n<section class=\"content\">\u201cWe have always required Chinese enterprises to conduct business in accordance with laws and regulations, and will firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said.<br \/>\nGuo emphasized the importance of making every possible effort to prevent a resumption of hostilities in the region as the world&#8217;s most urgent priority at this juncture, adding \u201cThe pressing priority is to prevent by all means a relapse in fighting, rather than using the war to maliciously associate and smear other countries.\u201d<br \/>\nThe US State Department this week sanctioned three Chinese companies it accused of aiding Tehran during the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, the latest in the back-and-forth between the two countries just days before President Donald Trump will meet with China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping in a high-stakes confab in Beijing.<br \/>\nThe agency accused the firms \u2014 Meentropy Technology (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd, The Earth Eye and Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. \u2014 of \u201cproviding satellite imagery that enables Iran\u2019s military strikes against US forces in the Middle East,\u201d according to a fact sheet Friday.<br \/>\n\u201cThe United States will continue to take action to hold China-based entities accountable for their support to Iran and ensure Iran cannot reconstitute its proliferation-sensitive programs following Operation Epic Fury,\u201d the State Department wrote, <span class=\"\">and<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0added:<\/span>\u00a0\u201cThe targeting of US service members and partners will not go unanswered.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China voiced strong opposition to US sanctions, calling the curbs on three China-based companies, which the US claimed enabled Iran\u2019s military operations, illegal and unilateral. Tehran-IranView24 \u201cWe have always required Chinese enterprises to conduct business in accordance with laws and regulations, and will firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises,\u201d Chinese Foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","category-east-asia","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6660,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions\/6660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}