CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Grant Newsham) - CSP Senior Fellow Grant Newsham quoted: Chinese firms running OSINT for Iran against US in semi-covert state action
Originally published by Vision Times
A member of the Iranian security forces stands guard next to a banner honouring Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on March 31, 2026. US and Israeli strikes hit military facilities in central Iran, damaged a major religious site in the northwest and provoked power cuts on March 31, after the US president threatened to blow up the country’s oil and energy plants. Officially, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is keeping its distance from the war in the Middle East; however, its private firms, including those with ties to its military establishment, are busy marketing U.S. wartime data to Iran. According to a report by The Washington Post , these Chinese companies integrate AI and open-source intelligence…Open