{"id":76496,"date":"2026-04-21T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/76496\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:40:22","slug":"developing-us-forces-intercepted-gift-from-china-to-iran-donald-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/76496\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing | US forces intercepted \u2018gift from China\u2019 to Iran, Donald Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that American forces had intercepted a \u201cgift from China\u201d to Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Speaking ahead of the expiry of the current two-week ceasefire on Wednesday, Trump told CNBC that Tehran had \u201cprobably done a little bit of restocking\u201d and implied that Beijing had been helping its efforts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He added: \u201cWe caught a ship yesterday that had some things on it, which wasn\u2019t very nice, a gift from China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The claim was first made by former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, and Trump then injected a note of doubt, saying: \u201cPerhaps, I don\u2019t know, but I was a little surprised \u2026 but I thought I had an understanding with President Xi [Jinping], but that\u2019s all right. That\u2019s the way war goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s foreign ministry denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTo my knowledge, this is a foreign-flagged container ship. China opposes any malicious links and hype,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Haley made the allegation about the ship in a social media post, saying it had \u201crefused repeated orders to stop\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that American forces had intercepted a \u201cgift from China\u201d to Iran.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[383,262,27922,38,34,69,153,8398,2863],"class_list":{"0":"post-76496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-cnbc","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-tehran","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-us-forces","16":"tag-wednesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116443219451284110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}