Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech during the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Reuters
The National: Iran joins expanding Asian security body led by China and Russia
Iran joined a rapidly expanding Central Asian security body led by Russia and China on Friday, calling on the countries in the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation to help it form a mechanism to avert sanctions imposed by the West.
The body, formed in 2001 as a forum for Russia, China and ex-Soviet states in Central Asia, expanded four years ago to include India and Pakistan with a view to playing a bigger role as counterweight to western influence in the region.
In a sign of its growing influence, the body's summit in Tajikistan was the first appearance abroad of Iran's new hard-line president, Ebrahim Raisi, since he took office in August.
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Update #1:Iran joins expanding Asian security body led by Moscow, Beijing (Reuters)
Update #2: Iran looks east after China-led bloc OKs entry (France 24)
WNU Editor: For Iran it is all about avoiding sanctions.
4 comments:
Once again, Iran represents a direct threat (whether real or imagined) to the West, not the East. If China wants to help Iran bypass sanctions and continue its nuclear program, then China needs it's ass shaken. A clear, unambiguous warning that aiding Iran and other ME terror regimes will result in direct aid to the Taiwanese military should help to make the point. But I suppose in the world of internationalist politics this would be dismissed as too simplistic. In other words, Western internationalists do NOT want to crush China (they NEED China to accomplish their agenda), they just don't want them straying too far from the script or (even worse) deciding to abandon the script altogether.
The anti-Western coalition is strengthening. We absolutely must strengthen our offensive forces to deter our enemies.
Iran's hopes are in vain as long as the West has the will.
The problem is that the administration has this will.
Congrats Iran!
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