Trump says he asked China's Xi not to give Iran weapons

Middle East Eye · April 15, 2026 Sanctions

Trump says he asked China's Xi not to give Iran weapons US President Donald Trump has told Fox Business Network that he wrote a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping in which he asked Xi not to give Iran weapons. Xi responded by saying that China was not supplying Iran, Trump said. “I wrote him a letter asking him not to do that, and he wrote me a letter saying that, essentially, he's not doing that,” Trump said in the interview, which was recorded on Tuesday.

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