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China-Iran Pact Paves Way for Alternative to Suez
By Pepe Escobar
The extraordinary confluence between the signing of the Iran-China strategic partnership deal and the Ever Given saga in the Suez Canal is bound to spawn a renewed drive to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and all interconnected corridors of Eurasia integration.
This is the most important geoeconomic development in Southwest Asia in ages – even more crucial than the geopolitical and military support to Damascus by Russia since 2015.
Multiple overland railway corridors across Eurasia featuring cargo trains crammed with freight – the most iconic of which is arguably Chongqin-Duisburg – are a key plank of BRI. In a few years, this will all be conducted on high-speed rail.
The extraordinary confluence between the signing of the Iran-China strategic partnership deal and the Ever Given saga in the Suez Canal is bound to spawn a renewed drive to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and all interconnected corridors of Eurasia integration.
This is the most important geo-economic development in Southwest Asia in ages – even more crucial than the geopolitical and military support to Damascus by Russia since 2015.
Multiple overland railway corridors across Eurasia featuring cargo trains crammed with freight – the most iconic of which is arguably Chongqin-Duisburg – are a key plank of BRI. In a few years, this will all be conducted on high-speed rail.
March 1, 2021 at 4:36 pm | Published in: Iran, Middle East, News
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addresses people in Tehran, Iran on January 08, 2020 [Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu Agency] March 1, 2021 at 4:36 pm
Iran s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei yesterday called to start uranium enrichment as of today .
A video on Khamenei s Arabic-language Twitter account saw him saying: The day when oil runs out, nuclear energy that is produced more cleanly and at lower cost will become commonplace. Enrichment cannot start at that time … We have to start from today, and we have to start now in order to be ready and have this ability.
Macron Offers to Be ‘Honest Broker’ in US-Iran Talks, But Pushes JCPOA Expansion Tehran Rejected
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A US State Department spokesperson on Tuesday dispelled rumors that US President Joe Biden’s transition team has been engaged in backroom talks on the US returning to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), saying it was “a long way” from considering Iran’s proposal to revive the deal.
French President Emmanuel Macron has once again offered his help in patching up relations between Iran and the United States, suggesting he could be an “honest broker” in talks over returning to the 2015 nuclear deal. However, he also said he wants to expand the deal to include the strongly anti-Iranian countries of Israel and Saudi Arabia.