{"id":103152,"date":"2022-04-28T06:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=103152"},"modified":"2022-04-28T06:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:19:52","slug":"iran-seeks-to-expand-its-military-cooperation-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/04\/28\/iran-seeks-to-expand-its-military-cooperation-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Seeks to Expand Its Military Cooperation With China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 TEHRAN \u2014 <\/span>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi expressed Wednesday his government\u2019s desire for closer cooperation with China in remarks made during a visit by the Chinese defense minister, state media reported.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Raisi told China\u2019s Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe that Tehran sees its ties with Beijing as strategic. Closer cooperation would serve to confront what the Iranian president described as U.S. unilateralism as talks to revive Tehran\u2019s nuclear deal with world powers have stalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cConfronting unilateralism and creating stability and order is possible through cooperation of independent and like-minded powers,\u201d Raisi was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Wei in turn said improving ties between Iran and China would provide security, \u201cparticularly in the current critical and tense situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wei also met with his Iranian counterpart, Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtinai, and reportedly invited him to visit China, as well as with other Iranian military officials.<\/p>\n

The official IRNA news agency quoted Ashtiani as assailing U.S. military presence in the Middle East and elsewhere, claiming that \u201cwherever the U.S. has had military presence, it has created waves of insecurity, instability, rifts, pessimism, war, destruction and displacement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wei said his visit was aimed at \u201cimproving the strategic defense cooperation\u201d between Iran and China \u2014 cooperation that he said would have a \u201cremarkable\u201d impact in defusing unilateralism and fighting terrorism.<\/p>\n

Iran and China have increased their military ties in recent years, with their navies visiting each other\u2019s ports and holding joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Iran and China signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement that covered a variety of economic activities from oil and mining to promoting industrial activity in Iran, as well as transportation and agricultural collaborations.<\/p>\n

China is a signatory to the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, along with Russia, Britain, France and Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 TEHRAN \u2014 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi expressed Wednesday his government\u2019s desire for closer cooperation with China in remarks made during a visit by the Chinese defense minister, state media reported. According to the report, Raisi told China\u2019s Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe that Tehran sees its ties with Beijing as strategic. Closer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103155,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103152\/revisions\/103155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}