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Fighting for its survival, the theocratic dictatorship in Iran is now seeking to negotiate a $400 billion China bailout (about 310 billion pounds). As Iran’s economy collapses and the rial, the Imploding Iranian currency, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the regime’s unfortunate foreign minister, boasted to tehran’s parliament this month that he was confident of the final results of the Beijing negotiations.
Irony is not really lost when a fundamentalist Islamic regime begins to negotiate a 25-year “strategic partnership” with a communist state that has imprisoned more than a million Uighur Muslims in so-called re-education camps and even imprisoned some for the growth of its beard. Since Hitler’s pact with Stalin in 1939, two diametrically opposed ideologies have not sought to paint together. This is the clearest signal to date of the collapse of the straw mullah regime.
China’s autocratic government will be more than satisfied to remain silent when a primary industry agreement is at stake. Their disapproval of radical Islam and Muslims in general will be put aside as they organize reasonable oil and fuel imports for a quarter of a century and lucrative engineering and telecommunications contracts. As soon as Huawei is deported from the United States and Europe, it will be returned to Iran.
More worrying will be the intelligence and security data exchange agreement, which can have serious implications for the West. Beijing has been embroiled in a sour industrial war with Washington since President Trump took office, so they will care little about American threats to penalize them for violating U.S. “maximum pressure” crusade sanctions against the Iranian regime.
Iran’s economy was already in freefall before it hit the coronavirus pandemic. President Hassan Rohani, vehemently corrupt and tragically incompetent, told his 80 million besieged citizens to leave their homes, leave the lockup and return to work.
Nuclear weapons, terrorism and war for powers
Insisting that covid-19s were controlled, the theocratic regime ordered the reopening of schools and shops, factories, warehouses and workshops to resume its activities, exposing its staff to disease.
They had the option of staying home and starving, or going out to paint and die from the virus, as the regime presented not in a country where more than 70% live below the poverty line.
The inevitable result is a storm surge of disease, with more than 72,000 dead, according to opposition figures. Rohani said about 25 million more people had had the virus with a “possibility that between 30 and 35 million more are infected.”
The Mullahs lost the coronavirus pandemic and lost the Iranian economy. Having stolen other people’s wealth for 41 years since the 1979 revolution, spending billions on the export of terror and war for powers in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza and Iraq, spending billions more on their more sensible secret nuclear weapons program, while putting bags of money into their own personal bank accounts Array now faces a public reaction.
A pact with the devil
Desperate to hold on to power, they asked Beijing for help. For Iran’s ideal leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who claims to be God’s representative on Earth, is an even greater irony to see him approve a pact with the devil.
But an 18-page document leaked online to the Western press and dated June 2020 sets the obvious parameters of the agreement. There will be significant Chinese investments in roads, railways, bridges, ports and infrastructure. This, of course, will increase fears of Chinese aid for Iran’s nascent nuclear and ballistic missile program, which has virtually stopped recently after a series of mysterious explosions at secret army sites across the country.
The agreement includes China’s structure of the infrastructure of a 5G telecommunications network in Iran. It is worrying that this also applies to the military’s cooperation plans and even to joint education and weapons development. The $400 billion the Chinese will give to the mullahs if the deal materializes will in fact be used to revive the regime of exporting terror and indirect wars in the Middle East.
The economy on the brink of collapse
Brian Hook, Senior U.S. Policy Adviser on Iran from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said the clerical regime had spent more than $16 billion in recent years to fund militant terrorists across the Middle East, a cash that was repatriated to Iran under President Obama’s terms. faulty nuclear deal.
Hook says that while Iran’s economy is on the brink of collapse due to harsh sanctions imposed through the Trump administration, the Islamic Republic’s authoritarian leadership has spent its limited reserves of money on terrorist teams such as Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as militant terrorists in Syria. Iraq and Yemen.
But now, the Chinese’s injection of new liquidity will provide the mullahs with a lifeline. A U.S. State Department spokesman said last week, “The United States will continue to impose prices on Chinese corporations that Iran, the world’s largest terrorist-sponsoring state.”
In one component of the leaked document, the text reads: “Two ancient Asian cultures, two components in the trade, economy, politics, culture and security sectors with perspectives, and many bilateral and multilateral mutual interests will see themselves as strategic components.”
Alarm bells to sound in the West
The Iranian regime has already won the support of President Vladimir Putin and the Russians, their malevolent allies, Bashar al-Assad and his fatal civil war in Syria. China’s incorporation into this damaging alliance deserves to sound the alarm in the West.
But, obviously, Beijing has identified that the United States is recovering from the coronavirus pandemic and its worst economic recession since the Great Depression of 1933. President Xi Jinping feels America’s weakness and believes China will face any sanction Trump may impose on Chinese companies.
The agreement now calls for the participation of Iran’s radical parliament, which appears to be in a position to allow the Chinese dragon to enter the ancient Persian empire. However, Beijing would do well to take into account the Iranian public’s negative reaction to the news of the agreement.
Social media in Iran has been inundated by a typhoon of allegations by ordinary Iranians who see the agreement as a deeply unpopular regime. President XI Jinping deserves to reflect on the damage this will cause to China’s symbol and the negative reactions that will occur when the despitic dictatorship of the mullahs is still overthrown.
Struan Stevenson is the coordinator of the Campaign for Change in Iran (CiC), a Middle East speaker and president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA).
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