Iran legal defence team may have received chipmaking backing from China: US representatives
WASHINGTON: SMIC, China's largest chipmaker, has sent chipmaking tools to Iran's legal defence team, two senior Trump governing body representatives
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Iran legal defence team may have received chipmaking backing from China: US representatives
WASHINGTON: SMIC, China's largest chipmaker, has sent chipmaking tools to Iran's legal defence team, two senior Trump governing body representatives stated on Thursday, raising questions about Beijing's stance in the month-old US-Israeli dispute with Iran.
SMIC, which has been heavily sanctioned by the US province over alleged ties to the Chinese legal defence team, began sending the tools to Iran roughly a year ago and "we have no reason to believe that any of this has stopped," one of the representatives stated.
The official further stated that the collaboration "almost certainly included technical training on SMIC's semiconductor technology."
The representatives spoke on condition of anonymity in command to discuss previously undisclosed US province information. They did not specify whether the tools were of US origin, which would likely make shipment to Iran a violation of US economic penalties.
SMIC, the Chinese Diplomatic mission in Washington, and a representative for the Iranian mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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