Mystery flights from China to Iran raise questions amid Israel conflict

Several Boeing 747s person been spotted connected radar leaving China for Iran implicit the past week, according to reports, sparking concerns that the CCP is helping the Middle Eastern federation transport cargo oregon radical retired of the state arsenic Israel continues to onslaught the country’s atomic facilities. 

Starting connected June 14th, FlightRadar24 shows that astatine slightest 5 flights traveled from China to Iran, and The Telegraph reported that the "mystery transport planes" had flown westward on bluish China earlier crossing into Kazakhstan, southbound done Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and past fell disconnected radar arsenic they approached Iran. 

Additionally, the study indicated that the flights had a last destination of Luxembourg but don’t look to person ever crossed into European airspace.

Some experts person speculated that these types of planes are typically utilized for transport and could beryllium grounds of China aiding its longtime state Iran during the struggle with Israel, though Fox News Digital has not independently confirmed the quality of the flights. 

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Israel's aerial defence targets Iranian missiles successful the entity of Tel Aviv successful Israel, connected June 16, 2025. (Matan Golan/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

"I deliberation it's important to retrieve what the narration is, forty-three percent of China's lipid and state comes from the Middle East, a ample measurement of that from Iran," Robert Greenway, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, told "The Ingraham Angle" connected Wednesday night. 

"It likes to bargain sanctioned lipid beneath marketplace value, and that fuels the Chinese system and besides its subject ambitions, and so, that's the cardinal relationship. They've been comparatively quiescent – successful fact, highly quiescent – astir the existent struggle and coming to Iran's assistance. We besides cognize that a ample occurrence successful Bandar-Bas larboard was Chinese coagulated propellant for missiles that exploded and created a tremendous magnitude of harm conscionable astir a period ago. I deliberation it's improbable to spot Chinese arms shipments nether the circumstances to Iran. It's much apt that Iran whitethorn beryllium removing worldly oregon unit oregon authorities valuables to harmless haven successful airy of the conflict. I deliberation that's astir apt the grade to which China is consenting to judge the hazard associated with the existent circumstances."

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the assemblage during a gathering with officials, Islamic countries' ambassador to Iran and a radical of radical successful Tehran, Iran (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

In 2021, Fox News Digital reported that Tehran and Beijing signed a 25-year practice woody amidst large fanfare successful the Iranian capital. University of Tehran Professor Mohammad Marandi, who is adjacent to the regime, told Fox News that it is astir overmuch much than what's connected paper. 

"This strategical concern is important due to the fact that it allows Iran and China to physique a roadmap for semipermanent relations that volition beryllium overmuch much fruitful," helium said. "It’s besides a awesome being sent to the United States. The much the U.S. tries to isolate Iran and China, the much it causes countries similar Iran and China to determination much intimately to each other."

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Chinese President Xi Jinping listens arsenic Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, not pictured, speaks during their gathering astatine the Office of the Party Central Committee successful Hanoi, Vietnam, connected Monday, April 14.  (AP/Minh Hoang)

Some person formed uncertainty connected the flights representing a nefarious transportation betwixt the 2 nations, including Atlantic Council chap Tuvia Gering who posted connected X that an aviation adept told him the flights are "nothing to constitute location about." 

"There are regular cargo flights by the Luxembourg-based freight institution from respective locations successful China to Europe, with a stopover successful Turkmenistan (just a fewer twelve kilometers from the Iranian border)," Gering wrote. 

"Some formation tracking websites suffer the tracking awesome soon earlier landing and proceed to amusement a projected way that appears to participate Iranian airspace. The sites intelligibly bespeak that this is an estimated path; checking the craft process numbers shows they instrumentality disconnected again from Turkmenistan a fewer hours later, and reviewing the formation past of these routes shows they ever onshore successful Ashgabat and bash not proceed into Iran. All this is earlier adjacent considering the evident logic that a large European cargo institution is highly improbable to beryllium the transmission done which China transfers its super-advanced, top-secret strategical weapons to Iran."

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President Trump changed the bid of the Greenland basal successful a strategical determination arsenic Russia and China instrumentality much involvement successful the Arctic region. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Tensions betwixt Iran and Israel person escalated importantly successful caller days, with the United States contemplating whether it volition get straight progressive successful striking Iran. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that Iran cannot person a atomic weapon, and helium is expected to conscionable with nationalist information and defence leaders again connected Thursday. 

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"Yes, I whitethorn bash it. I whitethorn not bash it. I mean, cipher knows what I'm going to do. I tin archer you this that Iran's got a batch of trouble, and they privation to negotiate," Trump said Wednesday. 

"And I said, wherefore didn't you negociate with maine earlier each this decease and destruction? Why didn't you go? I said to people, wherefore didn't you negociate with maine 2 weeks ago? You could person done fine. You would person had a country. It's precise bittersweet to ticker this," the president added.