US sanctions Chinese network that sold drone components to Iran, says UAVs were used by Russia in Ukraine

Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg says China is an adversary, not a competitor, amid growing concerns over rising threats on "Your World." The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions Thursday on a China-based network that sells aerospace components to Iran for manufacturing drones. The Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company manufactures the Shahed-136 drones and exports them to Russia, which has increasingly used them to bombard Ukraine in recent months. "Iran is directly implicated in the Ukrainian civilian casualties that result from Russia's use of Iranian UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicle), in Ukraine," said Brian Nelson, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, in a statement on Thursday. "The United States will continue to target global Iranian procurement networks that supply Russia with deadly UAVs for use in its illegal war in Ukraine."