The Chinese dragon and the Iranian lion have merged together in a pact that might forever alter the balance of power in the Middle East. China, with a population of 1.393 billion people and a land mass of 3.705 million square miles is merging with Iran, with a population of approximately 84 million people and a land mass of 636,000 square miles which would post a significant threat to the stability of the region, and the entire world.
Iran has been cash-starved by the US led sanctions, and China sees this as a way of getting heavily discounted oil from the current Iranian surplus, and access into the vast Persian territory for China’s hegemonic “Belt and Road” initiative. They will be participating in joint military exercises intelligence sharing, and research and development of weaponry.
Both are sworn enemies of the United States, and neither could be trusted when it comes to Israel’s national security interests.
On Friday, in his Eid al-Adha address, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated “our main enemy is the US and their regime,” and revelled over our current economic problems, racial issues, and difficulties in containing the pandemic, gloating over the notion that “currently the American people are the greatest enemy to the US regime.”
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