A series of mysterious cargo planes from China appear to have flown close to Iran\u2019s airspace before falling off the radar in recent days, fuelling concerns that Beijing may be quietly assisting in the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Public flight trackers showed at least three Boeing 747 freighters, which are commonly used for transporting military equipment and weapons, taking off from Chinese cities on Saturday \u2014 the day after Israel attacked Iran \u2014 Sunday and Monday, The Telegraph<\/a><\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In each case, the planes flew westward along northern China, crossed into Kazakhstan, then south into Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan before disappearing from radar as they neared Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iran is one of China\u2019s key energy suppliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":238153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1843,35,118,790],"tags":[17124],"class_list":["post-238152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-china","category-breaking-news","category-china","category-iran","tag-boeing-747-freighter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238154,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238152\/revisions\/238154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}