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U.S. Department of State

Daily Press Briefing

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QUESTION: Do you have anything about China's Missile sales to Iran?

MR. DINGER: This is the report over the weekend?

QUESTION: Right. The Washington Times article, not the Post article.

MR. DINGER: I don't think I have anything with me. What I can say, though, is that these reports of those specific missile sales have been in the public record for some time. In that regard it was - in fact, in most regards, it was not a new story as far as we could tell.

There is law in place governing the sale of such systems to Iran. We apply that law appropriately and, under the law, we have determined that there has been - the sales thus far have not met the threshold for any action by us. We will continue to monitor this issue and these issues against the law and, of course, we'll apply the law appropriately.

QUESTION: Any possibility are you going to review the export/import control?

MR. DINGER: No, I don't have anything for you on that.

QUESTION: There was a determination, then, that there were these sales to Iran by China, but the sales have not met the threshold of action?

MR. DINGER: That's right. I think we've covered that in this briefing before, the same issue. I believe we have. The reports date back sometime, I believe

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