European And Asian Countries Rush To Sign Economic And Business Deals With Iran

Pepe Escobar, Asia Times: Iran turns The Art of the Deal upside down

Tehran busy signing massive infrastructure deals with China's CITIC and European partners.

As President Hasan Rouhani prepares to address the UN General Assembly in New York and the Trump administration and allies relentlessly lobby for the Iran nuclear deal to be decertified, Tehran is busy clinching deal after deal with Asians and Europeans.

For the Chinese government, Iran – and Pakistan – are so geopolitically important that they are treated as Home Affairs nations in East Asia (and not the Middle East, in the case of Iran), alongside Japan and Indonesia.

And just like Pakistan via the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Iran is an essential node of the New Silk Roads, a.k.a. Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

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WNU Editor: Iran sees these mega-business deals as an insurance policy that sanctions will not be imposed .... but I say that they should not be that cocky. Iran is pursuing a very aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East that is backed by militias/arms/and monies, and (I predict) the Sunni Arab blow-back is going to be intense .... and probably more so than what we are seeing now.

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