The New Dark Age

Iran is the southwestern pivot of Central Asia, an Iran defeated and subjugated by the US and Israel opens up the underbelly of Russia, provides entrance into the “Stans”, delivers utter dominance of the Straits of Hormuz, and even a border with Pakistan. So much more than the West lost when it left Afghanistan. Such a subjugation and defeat would be a disaster for both Russia and China. The latter invested money in Iran, and buys Iranian oil, but it has not flexed its military and security service muscles to make Iran strong enough to deter US aggression.

The 12-day war and the ability of Mossad and the CIA to so successfully get inside Iranian systems and Iranian institutions seems to have woken up China somewhat to the peril that Iran faces. Both Russia and China need to be to Iran what the West is to Ukraine; suppliers of financial resources, weaponry, secure systems and intelligence. Iran is more important to both Russia and China than Ukraine is to the West. As Navroop Singh surmises “Israeli Intelligence Breakthroughs in Iran Triggered a Chinese Strategic Pivot”. He goes on to state:

What initially appeared as an Iranian failure was reclassified by China as a regional destabilizer with direct consequences for Chinese strategic, economic, and logistical interests … This realization triggered a decisive expansion of Chinese technical cooperation with Iran, focused on sealing intelligence gaps rather than merely upgrading conventional defenses.

One of the most visible outcomes of this shift was Iran’s decision to transition fully to China’s BeiDou platform, abandoning reliance on U.S. and Western GPS networks … [and China] advising Iran to purge American- and Israeli-origin software from sensitive state and military systems and replace them with closed, Chinese-built architectures designed to frustrate both Mossad and the CIA.

In parallel, the start of a deeper military alliance with China which supplied the materials needed to rebuild Iran’s missile batteries while also “making its missile forces more resilient to electronic sabotage and pre-launch neutralization”. Iran has also requested China’s more advanced radar platforms.

China is fundamentally reassessing its relationship with Israel, seeing Israel as the Western tool being utilized to undermine BRINCISTAN that it is. China has banned new investment in Israel, and is removing all Israeli (and other Western) software from state offices, while also enforcing strict export regulations around the export of dual-use items to Israel.

China and Russia have also placed their military vessels in the region, which will obviously be sharing intelligence information with the Iranians while acting as somewhat of a deterrence. The ability to monitor US forces during any attack will also be invaluable to the Chinese military in developing counter measures and calibrating their weapons.

Another step would be to inform the US that any attack upon Iran would be immediately met with an absolute ban on the export of rare earths and other critical materials and components to the US and any other nation involved in the attack. China has the US by the proverbials and needs to squeeze now and again to remind the US to behave itself.

China has made itself invulnerable to US attack, it now needs to do the same for its Central Asian heartland.