Analysis & Commentary

Analysis & Commentary

China’s Iran Deal Is Just the Beginning

China and Iran recently announced a twenty-five-year “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership,” which seeks to increase military, defense, and security cooperation between Iran and China, to the consternation of both countries’ adversaries. The pact does not signal the materialization of an Iran-China

President Joe Biden has put Democrats who opposed, or at least have concerns about, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, in a bind: he appears to share some of their concerns but wants to rejoin the deal anyway.

John Hannah is a Senior Fellow at JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy.

Eric Edelman, former undersecretary of defense for policy, is counselor at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s Gemunder Center for Defense & Strategy.