Trilateral Iran-Russia-China alliance growing much to dismay of US: Analyst

A political analyst says the United States fears the growing convergence between Iran, Russia and China and is thus resorting to cunning schemes to undermine the trilateral alliance.  

In an interview with Press TV on Wednesday, Nasser Qandil, a well-known journalist and editor with the Lebanese newspaper al-Binaa, said that since taking office two months ago, President Joe Biden, in line with his strategic plan to contain US rivals, has tried to resolve conflicts exacerbated by his predecessor Donald Trump in the world, especially in the Middle East, through different means, among them diplomacy.

For instance, in order to enter into a strategic rivalry with adversaries of the US, including Russia and China, Qandil said, Biden has tried to engage in negotiations with Iran, another opponent of the US, with the slogan of returning Washington to the 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump left in 2018 irrespective of global criticism.

Qandil, however, said that over the past two months, the US has been dragging its feet in this regard, playing a crafty game as to which side — Tehran or Washington —  should take the first step towards reviving the agreement.

In this course, the US State Department has been suggesting that Tehran is taking its time to further advance its nuclear program but Iran, China and Russia are well aware of US tricks to reach a compromise with its opponents, the analyst noted.

Biden, who was vice president when the Iran nuclear deal was clinched, has expressed a willingness to return the US to the agreement, but has taken no concrete measure, instead pressuring Iran to revive the accord by ending its counter-measures including uranium enrichment.

Qandil told Press TV that Americans and Europeans seek to engage with Russia, Iran and China with their old rationality, adding that they think they can reach an agreement especially with Iran based on “their own terms and conditions” but they are mistaken.

Westerners think that in order to keep Iran away from China, they can delude the country through certain compromises, but “Americans and Europeans do not know that Beijing, Moscow and Tehran act based on a tripartite alliance in Asia aimed at delineating the continent’s interests and its political and economic geography,” while they monitor the role of Washington and its allies based on changes over the last two decades.

Regarding Tehran’s position on this alliance, Qandil said that “Iran has become one of the most stable regions in the heart of Asia, and its strategic economic agreement with China as well as its strategic political and military agreement with Russia indicate the formation of a new world that marks the end of America's …. power to create divergence between allies.”

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