The Chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, Rep. John Moolenaar (R., Mich.), backed President Donald Trump’s historic strikes against Iran.
For years, Moolenaar — one of Congress’s top China hawks — has cautioned about the close and growing links between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Iran. Just days before Trump launched the joint U.S.-Israel strikes against targets across the Islamic Republic, Moolenaar’s committee found that “Chinese companies have also been sanctioned by the U.S. for supplying weapons and dual-use components to the Houthis — an Iran-backed terrorist group — who have attacked U.S. naval vessels over 170 times since 2023.”
“The U.S. government has also sanctioned Chinese companies for aiding Russian weapons manufacturers,” the Committee on the CCP found. “China has provided military technology and support to the Maduro regime in Venezuela, to Cuba, and to other adversarial regimes globally.”
Following Trump’s successful strikes, Moolenaar said that “President Trump gave the Ayatollah a clear warning: dismantle your missile program or face further destruction. The regime ignored those warnings with plans to develop an ICBM that could reach the United States.”
The threat from Iran, he added, has been ongoing for nearly half a century. “For nearly five decades, the Iranian regime targeted Americans and our allies, oppressed its people, funded terrorist activity around the world, and sought to develop a nuclear weapon,” the Michigan lawmaker noted. “After Operation Midnight Hammer, those ambitions were destroyed, but the regime attempted to rebuild its capabilities. God bless the brave members of the United States Armed Forces and I pray for their safety.”
