{"id":12058,"date":"2026-04-16T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=12058"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:45:33","slug":"report-iran-used-chinese-satellite-to-target-us-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=12058","title":{"rendered":"Report: Iran used Chinese satellite to target US bases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By JNS Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;<em>Financial Times<\/em>&nbsp;reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\u00a0China. The system reportedly provided the\u00a0IRGC\u00a0with imagery and coordinates of U.S. bases before and after missile and drone attacks in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\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;<em>FT<\/em>&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reuters<\/em>&nbsp;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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JNS Staff 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&nbsp;Financial Times&nbsp;reported on Wednesday. The newspaper, citing leaked Iranian military documents, said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 Aerospace Force took control of the TEE-01B satellite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[320,178,990,940],"coauthors":[381],"class_list":{"0":"post-12058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-2","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-middle-east-conflict","11":"tag-missiles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12060,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058\/revisions\/12060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12058"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}