{"id":2836,"date":"2021-03-27T07:29:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2021-03-27T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T03:01:51","slug":"2836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/03\/27\/2836\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, this is some of the biggest news of the year regarding Iran\u2019s ongoing revolutionary acts and the influence of China.\u00a0 Yes, China intends to use Iran for its own purposes and to benefit from taking its natural resources at a cheap price (by violating sanction purchases), but the agreement enables all the bad actions of Iran from intimidating neighbors (all the way to Europe and South America) to terrorism to supporting Hezbollah.\u00a0 \u201cIran and China sign 25-year cooperation agreement,\u201d<\/a> Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera, March 27, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0Pres. Rouhani thanked FM Wang \u201cfor China\u2019s stance on the nuclear deal and standing up to \u201cAmerican unilateralism.\u201d\u00a0 Notice the next sentence\u2014\u201cThe president also said Iran and China can work together to fight \u201cterrorism and extremism in the region\u201d in addition to economic and trade cooperation.\u201d This means that the chief terror state gets cover from China, and flips the definition and responsibility for terror on its head.<\/p>\n

So, don\u2019t think of this as an Iran-China agreement.\u00a0 It is a Khamenei-Xi treaty, designed to keep a tight grip on their countries for years.\u00a0 \u201cIran, China sign 25-year cooperation accord,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, Jerusalem Post, March 27, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan Iran\u2019s Presidential Elections Save Khamenei And His Regime?,\u201d<\/a> Cyrus Yaqubi, op-ed, Eurasia Review, March 27, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, this is some of the biggest news of the year regarding Iran\u2019s ongoing revolutionary acts and the influence of China.\u00a0 Yes, China intends to use Iran for its own purposes and to benefit from taking its natural resources at a cheap price (by violating sanction purchases), but the agreement enables all the bad actions … <\/p>\n

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