TEHRAN, November 19 (MNA) – Companies from different countries including Iran, China, Russia and the United States will showcase military equipment at an arms expo in Hanoi in December, Vietnam's defense ministry said on Tuesday.At the defense expo to be held in the capital Hanoi on December19-22, nearly 200 companies from 27 countries have already reserved booths, the ministry said in a statement, including firms from China and Iran, which had not attended Vietnam's first international military fair in 2022, Bussiness Standard reported.

Sources reported that arms manufacturing companies of the Zionist regime will also attend the expo.

China's state-owned defense giant Norinco Group, which is subject to the US sanctions will also attend, Le Quang Tuyen, deputy head of the defense industry department, said on the sidelines of a press conference about the expo on Tuesday.

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