President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi highlighted his government’s desire for stronger collaboration with China during a visit by the Chinese military minister on Wednesday, according to official media.
According to the article, Raisi informed China’s Minister of National Defense, Wei Fenghe, that Tehran considers its relations with Beijing to be crucial. As discussions to resurrect Tehran’s nuclear deal with international powers have stagnated, more collaboration would serve to counter what the Iranian president has termed as US unilateralism.
“Confronting unilateralism and creating stability and order is possible through cooperation of independent and like-minded powers,” Raisi was quoted as saying.
Wei in turn said improving ties between Iran and China would provide security, “particularly in the current critical and tense situation.”
Wei also met with Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtinai, his Iranian equivalent, and allegedly asked him to visit China, as well as other Iranian military leaders.
Ashtiani was reported by the official IRNA news agency as criticizing US military activity in the Middle East and abroad, saying that “everywhere the US has had military presence, it has caused waves of insecurity, instability, rifts, pessimism, violence, devastation, and displacement.”
Wei said that his visit was intended to “enhance strategic military cooperation” between Iran and China, which he claimed would have a “remarkable” influence on defusing unilateralism and combating terrorism.
In recent years, Iran and China have strengthened their military ties, with their warships visiting each other’s ports and participating in joint naval maneuvers in the Indian Ocean.
Iran and China inked a 25-year strategic cooperation deal in 2021, covering a wide range of economic operations ranging from oil and mining to supporting industrial activity in Iran, as well as transportation and agricultural partnerships.
China, along with Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, has signed the nuclear deal between Iran and international powers.
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