Beijing: The Chinese military on Thursday dismissed claims that China had supplied chips to the Iranian military, as well as satellite images released by the US, as "disinformation." "China firmly opposes the dissemination of speculative and insinuating disinformation targeting China by relevant parties," said Zhang Xiaogang, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson.

According to Anadolu Agency, Zhang was responding to reports alleging that China's largest chipmaker had supplied chipmaking equipment to the Iranian military, and that a Chinese commercial satellite firm had released images of US military bases in the Middle East. "We firmly oppose the dissemination of speculative and insinuating disinformation targeting China by relevant parties," he said.

Beijing "is open and above-board on the Iranian issue, consistently upholding an objective and just stance," Zhang added. China has always promoted "peace and dialogue and has never done anything to add fuel to the fire," he said, adding-without mentioning any countries by name-that the international community is seeing "very clearly who is saying one thing but doing another, and who is creating turmoil and conflicts around the world."