Iranian cargo ships allegedly carrying chemicals to make missile propellent are setting sail from China to deliver the shipment to Tehran's army.
Tehran’s growing reliance on Beijing is a consequence of the battering its missile program has had from Israeli strikes and highlights the alignment of Iran and China with Russia and North Korea.
In a boost for Tehran amidst the looming threat of a full-blown Iran-Israel war, the Islamic republic is set to receive a massive shipment of sodium perchlorate, which is used as missile fuel, from China.
In Davos, Mohammad Javad Zarif also says Israel failed in its Gaza war objectives, Tehran not building nukes; report says Iran to receive missile fuel shipment from China
Once China produced weapons-grade uranium, it assembled its first atomic bomb in as little as three to five weeks. Iran may do it even faster.
The Iranian regime has never looked so weak and vulnerable, with its empire of terror in tatters (thanks to Israel) and mounting crises at home (thanks to its corruption). Amid the doom and gloom, Iranian elites have at least been able to count on the continued flow of oil revenues needed to line their own pockets,
The first month of 2025 is almost over and, within these few days, signs of a coming sea-change in Asia’s geopolitics have already started taking shape, with Pakistan making rapid strides in Bangladesh,
Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine.
On Chinese social media, some want Iran to go nuclear – but others think it should learn from China’s “reform and opening.”
China is responding to Trump's energy-centric executive actions with a global diplomatic blitz. China courts the Middle East without push back from Washington.
The loose arrangement of hostile powers could pose a series of conundrums for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.