Saturday, 18 July 2020_A leading American newspaper has highlighted the importance of a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement being negotiated between Iran and China, saying the deal amounts to a “massive failure” of US pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic.
US President Donald Trump’s administration pursued a policy of economic sanctions in an attempt to bring Iran to the negotiating table, but such approach pushed Tehran towards signing an accord with Beijing rather than Washington, The Chicago Tribune said.
“The new China-Iran partnership represents a massive failure of the administration’s Iran policy,” the report said.
The daily noted that the yet-to-be-finalized accord would establish “a far-reaching economic and security partnership” between Iran and China.
The Sino-Iranian Comprehensive Strategic Partnership was announced in a joint statement during a visit to Tehran by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2016.
The cooperation roadmap consists of 20 articles, covering Tehran-Beijing ties in “Political,” “Executive Cooperation,” “Human and Cultural,” “Judiciary, Security and Defense,” and “Regional and International” domains, according to the statement released back then.
Recently, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi described the agreement as “principled” guideline under which, China will emerge as the world’s leading economic power in the near future, while Iran will turn into the great power in the West Asia region.
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