US Sanctions Chinese Companies Supplying Iranian Maker of Drones Sold to Russia
A Shahed-136 drone flies over Kyiv during an attack on Oct. 17, 2022.
Photographer: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images
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The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on five Chinese companies, and one person, accused of supplying aerospace components to an Iranian maker of drones sold to Russia and used in attacks on oil tankers.
Hangzhou Fuyang Koto Machinery Co. facilitated the shipment of millions of dollars of components including light aircraft engines to Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Co., which makes the Shahed-136 drone and has been under sanction since 2008, the department said in a statement.