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Sputnik International
BICOM
26th April 2021
The Times reports that three people died after an alleged drone attack on a fuel tanker that was helping deliver Iranian oil off the coast of Syria. The event comes after a series of “tit-for-tat” explosions on Iranian and Israeli ships since early 2021. Syrian state media, citing the country’s oil ministry, claimed that an “attack by a drone” on Saturday had caused a large fire on the oil tanker in the eastern Mediterranean, near the port of Baniyas. Iranian media, however, have tried to row back on the claims of a military strike, saying instead that a welding accident caused the fire. Analysts suggest that this may be an attempt to cover a more serious incident that had happened despite Syrian regime forces and their Russian allies being in the area.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif claims in a new audio recording that former Secretary of State John Kerry informed him of Israeli military operations in Syria but U.S. officials are brushing off the statement, saying the Israeli strikes were public knowledge. This is purportedly leaked material. Can t speak to the authenticity. Can t speak to the accuracy of it. Can t speak to any motives that may be behind its dissemination,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters Monday. “If you go back and look at press reporting from the time, this certainly was not secret, and governments that were involved were speaking to this publicly on the record.”
Making sense of the Iran-China strategic agreement
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The 25-year agreement between Iran and China that made headlines this past month is far from new. It was first announced in 2016 during a state visit by President Xi Jinping to Tehran, at a time when sanctions on Iran were being lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear deal. Chinese and Iranian officials have been working out the details of the deal ever since as part of a slow process of consultation and negotiations.
This process was doubtless complicated by the sudden uncertainty created by Washington’s abandonment of the 2015 nuclear deal and decision to re-impose sanctions on Iran from 2018 onwards. However, negotiations between Iran and China accelerated again as U.S.-China tensions increased and Beijing began looking for ways to push back on what it calls American “bullying,” such as the extraterritorial sanctions imposed on Iran.
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