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Hantavirus, the WHO, and the Conflicts in Weighing Mortality

By David Bell | Brownstone Institute | May 13, 2026

Yesterday, almost 2,000 people, mostly young children, died of malaria because they could not access effective and relatively cheap treatment quickly enough. About 4,000 people died of tuberculosis (TB), including many young adults leaving orphans. This happens every day. Progress in reducing these numbers is stalling, as partly due to the continuing economic damage from the Covid-19 response.

In the past two weeks three tourists unfortunately died among about 150 passengers and crew on a cruise ship MV Hondius off the west coast of the African continent where most of those malaria and TB deaths occurred. The Hondius had a hantavirus outbreak, known to have infected less than 10 people but including at least two of those that died.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 10,000 to 100,000 hantavirus cases occur every year, spread across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The current media coverage and WHO news conferences therefore concern about one-thousandth of the cases expected this year. The United States averages about 30 – they simply have not been newsworthy.

Hantavirus is transmitted from mice and rats through their feces, urine, saliva, or their bite. The Andean variety, which occurred on the cruise ship, can also sometimes transmit from a sick infected person. However, as the low number of cases on the ship demonstrates, the risk of human-human transmission is not great. It is, however, a nasty virus, with reported mortality around 15% of cases and sometimes significantly higher.

So, among the 170,000 average deaths in the world each day, and thousands from the WHO’s traditional focus diseases, why the excitement over Hantavirus? Why the pictures of hazmat-suited emergency response crews and desperate contact tracing, when we don’t usually notice? Why is the Director-General of the entire WHO spending so much time on this, when diseases of poverty are rising and basics such as nutrition funding are falling? A fascinating question.

The WHO wants the United States and Argentina to rejoin, and WHO DG Tedros Ghebreyesus has raised this in his hantavirus briefings. Multilateral cooperation in global health has demonstrably helped in addressing malaria and TB in the past, but reliance on detached and homogenous WHO recommendations for Covid worked out really badly. The WHO is wisely claiming the MV Hondius is not heralding a pandemic, but nonetheless are making all the mileage they can from the fear created around this epidemiologically irrelevant event.

Just two weeks ago, African nations also rejected (again) a pathogen-sharing requirement for the WHO’s new Pandemic Agreement (treaty). This would require them to implement surveillance at their expense and provide data on pathogens to the WHO, which will then provide it to large Pharma companies to produce vaccines that the WHO will recommend and market.

Malaria and TB deaths should increase further through this process because the WHO wants over $10 billion from donor countries diverted to its pandemic agenda, and $20 billion spent by low- and middle-income countries to support it (the world spends about $3.5 billion on malaria each year). While malaria, TB, HIV, nutrition, and improving access to primary care clinics may be a greater priority for such countries, false charges of putting the world at risk by failing to sign the WHO’s Pandemic Agreement may eventually prove too much to withstand.

A further potential influence is conflict of interest, though its impact on the current situation is unclear. The WHO’s largest donor is now the Gates Foundation, a private operation directed by Bill Gates with a strong history of investment in the mRNA vaccine company Moderna. Moderna is working on a hantavirus mRNA vaccine, which is surprising from an investment perspective as the market seems small. How would a viable commercial market be ensured for a vaccine for such an obscure disease? This viable market requires large swathes of the population to be convinced that they are at far higher risk than they actually are, or coerced into taking it. In the United States the risk is about 1 case per 10 million people per year, with perhaps 1 per million to 1 per 100,000 globally.

A direct connection between Moderna’s market problem and the current hysteria does not need to be made. The point is that the WHO is now an organization in which its largest funder also has large, vested interests in the sales of specific health products. Through specified funding, the funder also determines which activities the WHO will undertake.

The WHO’s second largest funder over 2024-2025 was Gavi, a public private parentship for vaccines, again involving Gates and Pharma companies. Public-private partnerships, which the WHO has itself essentially become, are intrinsically designed around vested or conflicted interest – the justification for private companies expending resources is gain for their investors.

No sane approach would allow vested commercial private interests to determine global health policy. Pharma’s job is to maximize profit, while the WHO’s job is to maximize health and health equity. One of these must be failing.

A vast global health industry has been built in which private investors determine priorities, taxpayers foot most of the bill, and populations have become markets. As this plays out, public health messaging becomes increasingly incoherent and detached from reality until several cases of hantavirus among tourists on a cruise ship, out of up to 100,000 expected this year, appear as an international crisis.

The result is not just fear and confusion, but a massive institutional failure that allows huge numbers of children to die disregarded while public health workers don hazmat suits as media celebrities. We need to ask why. There is a path for an organization such as the WHO to act in an ethical, proportionate manner that serves humanity rather than parasitizing it. The hantavirus roadshow can be an impetus for change, but not to further enrich and empower those promoting it. We need to, as citizens and as a public health community, insist that institutions such as the WHO do better, or insist on replacing them with something better.

David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. David is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and Director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, WA, USA.

May 13, 2026 Posted by | Deception, Science and Pseudo-Science | , , | Comments Off on Hantavirus, the WHO, and the Conflicts in Weighing Mortality

Russia says disputes over Iran, Greenland and Canada distract from Palestine

MEMO | May 13, 2026

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the US of trying to distract global attention from Palestine, Anadolu reports.

Commenting on the situation in the Middle East in an interview with RT India TV channel, Lavrov said ongoing US-provoked disputes involving Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland and Canada were distracting international attention from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“All of the efforts that are being taken right now on Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Greenland, and now Canada … all of these issues are moving us away from settling the most protracted, the most negative crisis in the world – that is, the crisis around Palestine,” he said.

The minister criticized American proposals regarding the future of the Gaza Strip, saying they did not address the establishment of a Palestinian state.

“I have no doubt that when plans to stir up aggression against Iran were being hatched, one of the goals was to prevent the normalization of relations between Iran and the Arab states,” he said.

He added: “Now, everything is being done to ensure that reconciliation never happens … and to pull its other Gulf neighbors into structures that, first, will not focus on resolving the Palestinian issue, and second, will force them to betray the Palestinian cause as the price for normalizing relations with Israel.”

Lavrov argued that failure to create such a state would prolong instability and extremism in the region for decades.

“We are returning to a period when everything is decided by force and international law is ignored,” Lavrov said.

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Russia Not Ruling Out West’s Preparing Another ‘Bloody Hoax’ in Ukraine – Diplomat

Sputnik – 13.05.2026

MOSCOW – Russia does not rule out that the West is preparing another “bloody hoax” in Ukraine similar to the one arranged in the city of Bucha in 2022, Yulia Zhdanova, the head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said on Wednesday.

NATO representatives have held three meetings with directors, screenwriters and producers working in the cinema industry in Brussels, Los Angeles and Paris, and planned a next meeting with members of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, Zhdanova said.

“The letter received by those invited to these events mentions ‘three projects’ that are already in development. Perhaps NATO countries are once again preparing for another bloody hoax? For instance, like the one staged in Bucha in April 2022,” Zhdanova said at the 1136th meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation.

The Russian Defense Ministry said in April 2022 that the footage of Bucha published by Kiev was a provocation. The ministry said that not a single local resident was subject to violence during the time that the town was under Russian control.

All Russian troops withdrew from Bucha by March 30, 2022, leaving the northward roads to and from the town open to traffic, while Ukrainian troops shelled the southern outskirts with large-caliber artillery, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia rejected any accusations of involvement in the alleged deaths in Bucha and warned world leaders against jumping to conclusions without first considering Moscow’s arguments.

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Iraq, Pakistan ink Hormuz safe passage deals with Iran: Report

The Cradle | May 13, 2026

Iraq and Pakistan have reached separate arrangements with Iran to move crude oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) through the Strait of Hormuz under Tehran’s new system for controlled passage through the strategic waterway, Reuters reported on 12 May.

The deals come as the US-Israeli war on Iran has sharply reduced energy exports from the Gulf, a region that normally supplies 20 percent of the world’s crude oil and LNG.

Claudio Steuer of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies told Reuters that “Iran has shifted from blocking Hormuz to controlling access to it … Hormuz is no longer a neutral transit route, it is a controlled corridor.”

Under this new framework, Iraq secured safe passage for two very large crude carriers, each carrying about 2 million barrels of crude, through the strait on Sunday.

An Iraqi oil ministry official said Baghdad is now seeking Iranian approval for additional shipments, as oil revenue makes up 95 percent of the Iraqi budget.

“Iraq is a close ally of Iran, and any deterioration in Iraq’s economy would also damage Iran’s economic interests in the country,” the official said.

In a separate arrangement, two tankers carrying Qatari LNG are heading to Pakistan after Islamabad reached an agreement with Tehran, according to two industry sources cited by Reuters.

The sources said neither Iraq nor Pakistan made direct payments to Iran or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for the transits.

Industry sources said Tehran is formalizing control over the strait by asking Baghdad to submit documents for each tanker, including destination, shipping details, ownership, and cargo specifications.

A Pakistani source told Reuters that the process has not been smooth, saying, “The IRGC sometimes changes the goalposts, so it is hard to keep things on track, but we are working through it.”

Amid the chokehold of the US–Iran double blockade, maritime activity through the vital Strait of Hormuz has withered to a mere five percent of its normal capacity, staggering global economies and energy markets.

The blockade has pushed Pakistan to open six overland routes for Iran-bound cargo, giving Tehran an alternative land corridor as the US blockade disrupts maritime trade through the Gulf.

A military correspondent for The Cradle reported that Pakistan issued the “Transit of Goods through Territory of Pakistan Order 2026” on 25 April, designating Karachi Port, Port Qasim, and Gwadar Deep-Sea Port to receive cargo bound for Iran and Central Asia through the Taftan border crossing.

The move could help clear around 3,000 Iranian containers stranded in Karachi after restrictions on ships traveling to and from Iran left food and consumer goods stuck at Pakistani ports.

Former Pakistani information minister Mushahid Hussain Syed said the new corridor gained importance after “the US Navy’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz since 13 April,” but stressed that Islamabad sees the arrangement as a commercial decision rather than a direct escalation with Washington.

“The unfair blockade has left thousands of Iranian containers stuck at Karachi ports, which has made it harder for people in Iran to get consumer goods,” Syed told The Cradle.

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CIA Waging Covert War Against Drug Cartels in Mexico – Reports

Sputnik – 13.05.2026

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is waging a covert war against drug cartels in Mexico and is now directly involved in the assassinations of their members, media reported, citing sources.

The previously unreported CIA campaign in Mexico, overseen by the elite and top-secret Ground Branch, is aimed at the complete dismantling of drug cartels, the report said on Tuesday. Since last year, CIA officers have been personally involved in assassination attempts against cartel members, primarily mid-level ones, the report added.

One of the US intelligence operations in the country was the car bombing of Francisco Beltran, a suspected member of the Sinaloa Cartel, on a highway near Mexico City in March, the report read. According to the report, CIA officers planted a bomb directly in Beltran’s car.

Such operations may be illegal in Mexico, the broadcaster reported, adding that not all missions were coordinated with the Mexican government, creating the risk of retaliatory action by cartels in the United States.

In March, US President Donald Trump announced that the US and Latin American countries were creating a military coalition to combat drug cartels in the region.

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‘Utterly baseless’: Iran rejects Kuwait’s claim of hostile plot on its island

Press TV – May 13, 2026

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed as “utterly baseless and rejected” accusations by Kuwait that the Islamic Republic had been planning hostile acts against its neighbor.

In a statement on Wednesday, the ministry strongly condemned the “improper action” of the Kuwaiti government in “politically and propagandistically exploiting” the case of four Iranian personnel who had been on a routine naval patrol mission and entered Kuwaiti territorial waters due to a navigational system malfunction.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran, while reiterating its principled policy of respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries in the region, including Kuwait, declares that it expects the Kuwaiti authorities, while avoiding hasty statements and baseless allegations, to pursue the existing issues through official channels,” it said.

The ministry also stressed the need for Iran’s embassy in Kuwait to be granted “the fastest possible access” to the detained Iranian nationals in accordance with international legal norms, and called for their immediate release.

Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that it had summoned the Iranian ambassador and delivered a note of protest to him.

It claimed that this action was taken following “the infiltration of a group of Iranian armed forces into Bubiyan and their clash with Kuwaiti forces.”

In a statement released on Wednesday, Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior also alleged a group linked to what it called the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) had attempted to enter Bubiyan Island.

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Hidden deep in an NPR story about a man who threatened to kill Jews at Cornell… He admits he did it to benefit Israel

The North Star with Shaun King | May 9, 2026

In the Fall of 2023, local, national, and even international news reported that a New York man made a series of threats against Jewish students and staff at Cornell University. A year later he was actually convicted and sentenced to nearly two years in prison for it.

It happened. Students there were actually afraid. I don’t want to pretend that they weren’t.

But there is one detail in this story that pretty much changes EVERYTHING.

According to NPR’s own reporting, the lawyer for Patrick Dai — the former Cornell student sentenced to 21 months in prison for making violent threats against Jewish students — said Dai made those threats as a “misguided attempt” to generate support for Israel and that he was a devout supporter of Israel. It was a false flag attack.

Patrick Dai, a former Cornell student from Pittsford, New York, pleaded guilty to one felony count of posting threats to kill or injure another person using interstate communications. According to the Department of Justice, Dai admitted that on October 28th and 29th, 2023, he posted anonymous threats to the Cornell section of an online discussion forum, including threats to shoot up 104 West, a Cornell dining hall that serves kosher meals and is located next to the Cornell Jewish Center.

The posts were vile.

They were criminal.

They terrorized Jewish students.

And Dai deserved serious consequences.

But that is not the whole story.

The part that should have been in the headline — or at least in the first few paragraphs — is that Dai’s own attorney said he was not acting out of hatred for Israel, but out of a desire to defend it. Except I had to literally scroll down TWELVE PARAGRAPHS to learn that the student was a Zionist who did it all to make people feel more sympathy for Israel.

NPR reported that Dai’s lawyer, Lisa Peebles, described his actions in a court filing as a “misguided attempt to highlight Hamas’ genocidal beliefs and garner support for Israel.” She said he believed the posts would create “blowback” against what he perceived as anti-Israel media coverage and pro-Hamas sentiment on campus.

Read that again.

According to his lawyer, he made threats against Jewish students to create sympathy for Israel.

That is not a small detail.

That is not a footnote.

That is the story.

Because if that defense claim is true, even partly true, then this was not just a case of antisemitic threats in the simple way NPR framed it. It was a false-flag-style propaganda act: a man allegedly posing as the very hatred he claimed to oppose in order to manipulate public opinion.

And NPR buried that fact deep inside the story.

That matters because media framing shapes public consciousness. Most people never read to paragraph 10 or 12 or 15. They read the headline. They skim the first few paragraphs. They absorb the frame. And the frame here was simple: a former Cornell student made antisemitic threats during a period of rising campus tension after October 7th.

But the buried fact makes the story more complicated and more politically explosive.

The threats were real. The fear was real. The crime was real. But according to the defense, the motive was not what the public would naturally assume.

That is the tension NPR should have centered.

To be fair, prosecutors rejected Dai’s explanation. NPR reported that federal prosecutors described his claims as “self-serving” and said they were contradicted by the threats themselves and by his later apology. The court also found that his conduct qualified as a hate crime under federal sentencing guidelines because he targeted Jewish students and substantially disrupted Cornell’s educational function. The Justice Department said the threats “terrorized the Cornell campus community for days and shattered the community’s sense of safety.”

That must be included.

But including the prosecution’s view does not erase the media problem.

The public deserved to know, from the start, that the defendant’s lawyer said this was an attempt to manufacture sympathy for Israel. Arab News, citing AFP, stated it much more directly:

Peebles told the court Dai was “pro-Israel” and made posts “in the guise of an anti-Semite Hamas extremist.”

That phrase should stop everybody cold.

“In the guise.”

Meaning, according to the defense, he was pretending.

If a Muslim student had posted fake Islamophobic threats against Muslims and later claimed he did it to generate sympathy for Palestine, do we honestly believe NPR would have buried that detail deep in the story?

No.

It would have been the headline.

It would have been the lead.

It would have been the entire frame.

We would have heard about hoaxes, manipulation, propaganda, radical activism, and fake victimhood. Every cable news panel would ask what this says about pro-Palestinian movements. Every politician who wanted to criminalize Palestine solidarity would use it as evidence.

But when the alleged motive points in the other direction — toward manufacturing support for Israel — suddenly the detail is handled delicately, carefully, quietly.

That is the double standard.

And it is not harmless.

Since October 2023, American media has repeatedly helped create an atmosphere where Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and anti-war students are treated as presumed threats. Their protests are scrutinized. Their chants are criminalized. Their grief is pathologized. Their politics are framed as danger before they are understood as dissent.

Meanwhile, this case involved a man who admitted to making horrific threats against Jewish students — and whose own lawyer said he did so to create backlash against anti-Israel sentiment.

That should have forced a deeper media conversation about how fear is manufactured, how propaganda works, and how quickly institutions accept narratives that benefit Israel.

Instead, the story was mostly folded back into the same familiar frame.

“Rising antisemitism.”

“Campus tensions.”

“Threats against Jewish students.”

Again, the threats were real. Jewish students were harmed. Nothing about Dai’s claimed motive changes the terror they experienced.

But motive matters.

Political context matters.

Media framing matters.

Because when a threat is allegedly staged to create sympathy for Israel, the public deserves to understand that clearly. Not as an afterthought. Not buried beneath official statements. Not softened into a detail most readers will miss.

The same media institutions that demand endless nuance when Israel bombs hospitals, schools, refugee camps, journalists, doctors, and children somehow lose their curiosity when a story might reveal pro-Israel manipulation.

That curiosity returns only when it can be aimed at Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs, immigrants, protesters, or anyone demanding an end to genocide.

This is why independent media matters.

Because the question here is not whether Dai should have been punished. He should have been.

The question is why one of the most important facts in the story was buried.

The question is why a case that may involve false-flag-style threats designed to “garner support for Israel” was still framed mainly as a straightforward example of antisemitic danger on campus.

The question is why American media is so much more comfortable telling stories that benefit Israel than interrogating stories that expose how support for Israel is manufactured.

That is the real story.

And NPR had it.

They just buried the lead.

Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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Col Douglas Macgregor: If We Go Back To BOMBING IRAN

Daniel Davis / Deep Dive – May 12, 2026

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Trump admits US sent weapons to fuel riots, terrorism inside Iran

Press TV – May 12, 2026

US President Donald Trump has again admitted to Washington’s support for armed riots and terrorist activities inside Iran amid continued aggressive American measures targeting the nation.

Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said elements were willing to take such seditious actions inside Iran.

He, however, referred to such actors as “the Iranian people” and pointed to the measures they could take as simply “going out on the streets.”

“They have no weapons. They have no guns,” he claimed.

Earlier this year, too, Trump had unequivocally admitted to the United States’ intentions to arm such elements, saying, “We sent guns, a lot of guns.” “You know what happened? The people that they sent them to kept them,” he had added at the time.

Adding to his Monday remarks, the US president said the weapons had been transferred to “Kurds,” who, according to him, stopped short of relaying the arms. “The Kurds disappointed us. The Kurds take, take, take… I’m very disappointed in the Kurds.”

The comments came as Iran faced widespread riots and terror activities across the country in late December and early January, during which elements primed and trained by American and Israeli spy agencies roamed the streets and opened fire against civilians and security forces.

Thousands, including women and children, were martyred throughout the episode that sought to take advantage of peaceful economic protests.

The Islamic Republic has denounced such “long-standing” policy on the part of the United States “of creating, financing, and arming terrorist groups in West Asia and beyond,” saying, it “constitutes a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and the fundamental principles and rules of international law.”

Tehran has also urged the United Nations to condemn and confront such measures.

Trump’s remarks also follow unprovoked American-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic, which was launched in late February.

The US president announced a ceasefire on April 8 amid decisive Iranian retaliation, but continues to target the country with an illegal naval blockade.

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Iran sues US at Hague tribunal, demands war reparations for June 2025 aggression

Press TV – May 12, 2026

Iran has filed a complaint against the United States at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), demanding compensation for damage inflicted on the country during the June 2025 war of aggression.

The semi-official Tasnim news agency said in a Tuesday report that the Iranian complaint at the Hague-based PCA was filed in February.

The report said the complaint accuses the US of violating the 1981 Algiers Accords, in which Washington committed to refraining from interfering in Iran’s internal affairs, whether directly or indirectly, politically or militarily.

It said Iran has demanded reparation from the United States over its imposition of sanctions, its attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and its use of threats.

The complaint also calls on the PCA to force the US to immediately cease its direct and indirect interventions in Iran, provide guarantees that it will not repeat those actions, and pay full compensation for the damage caused to the country by its military and non-military actions, Tasnim said.

It said the complaint only demands compensation for the damage caused to Iran during the 12-day Israeli war of aggression in June 2025, in which the US participated.

The United States contributed to the Israeli attacks on Iran by providing intelligence and military support to the regime.

Washington also carried out a midnight attack on Iran’s nuclear installations on June 22, 2025, causing considerable damage to underground facilities in central parts of the country.

The report did not mention whether Iran may take a separate legal action against the US for the damage inflicted during the recent war of aggression that began in late February and was halted as part of a ceasefire on April 8.

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In letter to UN, Yemen calls for end to blockade, sabotage by US, allies

Press TV – May 12, 2026

Yemen has written to the United Nations, calling for an end to over 10 years of blockade of the country and urging cessation of aggressive measures targeting the nation by the US and its allies.

Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulwahid Abu Ras denounced continuation of the “unjust blockade” in a letter addressed to the UN secretary general and the world body’s Security Council, Yemen’s official Saba news agency reported on Monday.

Continuation of the blockade, he added, “does not serve international peace and security.”

Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched the blockade as part of a full-scale war on March 26, 2015, with military, political, and logistical support from the United States and other Western states.

The war went on to claim the lives of tens of thousands of Yemenis, while consistently falling short of its main objective of restoring power to Yemen’s former Riyadh-friendly government.

The government had fled the country amid a power struggle, prompting Yemen’s popular resistance Ansarullah movement to start running state affairs.

Following a fragile UN-brokered ceasefire that was clinched in 2022, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Israeli regime waged many rounds of wholesale aggression against Yemen.

The attacks would seek to cripple Sana’a’s capability to stage solidarity strikes against Israeli targets in response to Tel Aviv’s war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.

According to the Yemeni official, “The continued hostile activities of the United States and its proxies will inflict greater damage on the region, and their consequences will be catastrophic.”

“The state of ‘neither war nor peace’ is no longer acceptable under any circumstances.”

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China rejects Israel’s ‘groundless’ allegation of missile support for Iran

Press TV – May 12, 2026

China has rejected Israel’s claims that Beijing provided support to Iran in manufacturing missiles.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told reporters on Tuesday that the accusations “are not grounded in facts.”

Beijing, he said, is “committed to promoting de-escalation and peace talks to bring about an end to the conflict” between Iran and the United States.

“We have made China’s position clear on multiple occasions. As a responsible major country, China always fulfills its due international obligations,” he added.

In an interview with CBS, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that during the joint US-Israeli aggression against Iran, China “gave a certain amount of support and particular components for missile manufacturing.”

Asked whether such support was continuing, he said, “Could be. Could be,” without providing further information.

Netanyahu’s controversial remarks came ahead of a planned visit to Beijing by US President Donald Trump.

The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman also condemned recent US sanctions on 12 individuals and entities over their alleged links to Iran, saying Beijing firmly opposes “unilateral sanctions.”

Guo said that the current “pressing priority” in West Asia is to “prevent, by all means, a relapse in fighting, rather than exploit the situation to throw mud at China.”

The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on 12 individuals and companies, several of them based in China and Hong Kong, for their alleged involvement in helping Iran “obtain weapons and the raw materials” necessary for its Shahed drones and ballistic missiles.

The department also threatened to take action against any foreign entities supporting what it called “illicit Iranian commerce,” including airlines, and to implement secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions that assist Iran, even those connected to China’s independent oil refineries.

China, however, pushed back against the sanctions on Chinese refiners buying Iranian crude, invoking a “blocking rule” for the first time last week, directing companies not to comply with US sanctions.

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