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China-Iran: The key to making sure the China-Iran deal never reaches its potential is to continue a maximum pressure campaign of secondary sanctions enforcement against any Chinese bank or company that moves forward on sanctionable business.
It was not a surprise that this deal was conceived in 2016 after the JCPOA lifted the most powerful US sanctions. And it would only be realizable if Biden returns to JCPOA and lifts sanctions, again.
Iranians don’t want their thuggish regime selling out their country to another thuggish regime. The Chinese Communist Party will steal the country’s resources, loading up the country with massive debts, while turning the Islamic Republic into an even more repressive state.
Maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic remains the only way to help Iranians take back their country from the mullahs and keep it free from Chinese Conmunists.
And in the geopolitical competition with the CCP, a return to the JCPOA in 2021 will be seen by Beijing (rightly) as a surrender to the regime in Iran.
This will be a signal to Beijing (and to American allies) that America doesn’t have the resolve to really compete.
This will be a signal to Beijing (and to American allies) that America doesn’t have the resolve to really compete.
