🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 BREAKING REPORT: Chinese satellite imagery helped Iran target the base where three American soldiers were KILLED in their sleep -U.S. officials say Tehran acquired high-resolution images of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base from Chinese entities both before and after the July 17 attack -Ballistic missiles hit a housing area where American troops were sleeping, killing three soldiers and wounding four who were medically evacuated -It was one of three separate missile strikes on the base within 24 hours, and the first American deaths since the April ceasefire -Within three days Iran published its own high-resolution images of damage across three areas of the base, and the Journal's analysis of public imagery found more than 20 structures hit -Post-strike imagery lets Iran grade its own accuracy and decide where to fire next, per former CIA Iran analyst Jim Lamson -Washington sanctioned three Chinese firms in May, MizarVision, Earth Eye and Chang Guang, over imagery Iran could use against American forces -Chang Guang was accused last year of supplying imagery that directly supported Houthi attacks -Senior officials raised the July strike with their Chinese counterparts, who demanded proof and refused to acknowledge any such activity -Officials now suspect China may also be helping Iran track American warships, after missiles were fired at a carrier and other ships in recent days -Iran's targeting was poor earlier in the war, often hitting empty ground, and IMPROVED over the summer Rubio met Wang Yi days after the attack and said nothing China had done changed the trajectory of the conflict. Set that against what has surfaced recently. A Shenzhen company builds the turbojet engines powering the upgraded Shahed drones, and Treasury investigations found nearly every Western component reaching Iran's drone program was routed through Chinese intermediaries and Hong Kong shells. The Justice Department named Chinese state agencies as clients of hackers inside federal weapons labs. Now the imagery that found a barracks. Engines, parts, networks, and then the coordinates that found a barracks in July. Source: The Wall Street Journal / Writer: Daniel