According to Iranian customs records cited by the Wall Street Journal on September 24, about 1,300 shipments were sent from China to Iran's Ministry of Defense in the first half of this year, including dual-use military-civilian components usable for drones and missile guidance. On June 17, the day the US-Iran interim ceasefire was signed, a batch of electronic components arrived in Tehran, and days after the ceasefire, more than $6 million worth of related components were airlifted in.