That the US had nothing to do with a Chinese-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia will be a bitter pill to swallow for a Biden administration that is flailing on foreign policy, writes Professor Joseph M. Siracusa.
China’s secret role in brokering a rapprochement between historic Middle East rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia presumably shocked and surprised the Biden administration.The deal, a diplomatic breakthrough negotiated with the Chinese, is a major victory for thrice-elected Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, as US policy flounders in the Middle East and elsewhere.
For its part, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard targeted the heart of the Saudis’ oil industry in 2019, halving the kingdom’s crude production.Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume ties with China’s help They also agreed to implement the Security Cooperation Agreement between them, as well as the General Agreement in the fields of economy, trade, investment, technology, science, culture, sports, and youth.
The Biden administration could also now effect a ceasefire in Yemen, which was the international community’s number one basket case before Russia invaded Ukraine. This will be a bitter pill to swallow for an administration that has little or nothing to show in foreign affairs. Ostensibly in Damascus to render “humanitarian assistance” to Syria’s earthquake victims, the minister’s real purpose was to end the diplomatic isolation President Assad has faced over Syria’s civil war which began in 2011, and turn a new leaf with both countries.
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