Press TV, Iran: Chinese military exercises seen as warning to USA against attacking Iran

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In recent weeks, the ‘Judging Freedom’ program has asked me and other interviewees how the Russians might react to a possible US-Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. My own response was that direct Russian intervention to defend Iran is not foreseen by their recently concluded comprehensive cooperation agreement and, in fact, Russia is too deeply engaged in its war with Ukraine to get involved militarily elsewhere. However, I pointed to China as having greater reason to intervene on behalf of Iran, given that it receives a large percentage of its oil imports from that country and would risk still greater threat to its oil supplies from any closing of the Straits of Hormuz which Iran would likely carry out if under attack.

In this chat with Press TV yesterday, I developed this idea of Chinese responding to threats against Teheran presently emanating from Washington. Indeed, I am calling the just started Chinese military exercises around Taiwan as a clear signal to Washington to desist with its planning an attack on Iran lest China create a ‘second front’ by laying siege to Taiwan.

In this context, it is also conceivable that Russia would create a ‘third front’ against Washington by responding to any US attack on Iran as cause for some major escalation in its war on Ukraine.

In the past two days, the Chinese Foreign Minister has been visiting Moscow and met not only with his Russian counterpart Lavrov but also with President Putin. What is said about their talks publicly is that they deal with preparations for Chairman Xi’s visit to Moscow for the 9 May celebrations of the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe day. Surely they also have discussed joint action to prevent and/or to respond to a US attack on Iran.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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