World Notes THE GULF

| For months the Reagan Administration has protested China's role as one of Iran's main arms suppliers, while Beijing has denied the allegation. Last week Administration officials said they have evidence that new Chinese arms shipments, including sophisticated C-801 antiship missiles, have arrived in Tehran since early October. More than 100 new Silkworm missiles, the type that were used in recent attacks on Kuwaiti shipping, are also said to be destined for Iran as part of two arms deals, one for $1.3 billion in 1983 and another for $600 million early last year.

A spokesman for the People's Mujahedin, an Iranian resistance group, said last week that China not only continues to sell Silkworms to the Ayatullah Khomeini, but that last year more than 100 Revolutionary Guards and Iranian military men traveled to China for missile training. The spokesman said some of these trainees serve in the 26th Salman Missile Brigade, the unit responsible for the Silkworm attacks on Kuwait launched from the Iranian- occupied Fao peninsula in Iraq.