This weekend’s signing of a highly-anticipated 25-year security and economic cooperation agreement between China and Iran was met with predictable anxiety in Washington and European capitals. The pact, signed by the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, calls for cooperation in the energy, oil, and nuclear power sectors as well as for maritime projects to promote Iran’s role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
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