{"id":92245,"date":"2026-04-15T07:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=92245"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:48:22","slug":"report-iran-used-chinese-satellite-to-target-us-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/report-iran-used-chinese-satellite-to-target-us-bases\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Iran used Chinese satellite to target US bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JNS STAFF<\/p>\n<p>(<em>JNS.org<\/em>) \u2013 Iran secretly obtained a Chinese-made reconnaissance satellite in late 2024 and used it to help target U.S. military positions across the Middle East during the recent conflict, the <i>Financial Times<\/i>&nbsp;reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92246\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92246\" class=\"wp-image-92246 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket-768x1070.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket.jpg 1008w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 215px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 215\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92246\" class=\"wp-image-92246 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket-768x1070.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-92246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese rocket launch containing satellite. (Photo by By AAxanderr &#8211; via Wikpedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The newspaper, citing leaked Iranian military documents, said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 Aerospace Force took control of the TEE-01B satellite built by China\u2019s Earth Eye Co. after its launch from&nbsp;<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/china-deepening-ties-with-iran-providing-drones-to-tehran-per-report-to-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a><\/span>. The system reportedly provided the&nbsp;<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">IRGC<\/span>&nbsp;with imagery and coordinates of U.S. bases before and after missile and drone attacks in March.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the arrangement, the Iranian regime gained access to ground stations operated by Beijing-based Emposat, whose network spans Asia, Latin America and other regions, the&nbsp;<i>FT<\/i>&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n<p><i>Reuters<\/i> said it could not independently verify the report. U.S. and Chinese government agencies, as well as the companies involved, did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Report%3A%20Iran%20used%20Chinese%20satellite%20to%20target%20US%20bases\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25],"tags":[2458,184,15145,8790,8795,8788,15144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92247,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92245\/revisions\/92247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}