WASHINGTON (TNND) — What is the motivation for military action in Iran?
The day before, Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted,” There absolutely was an imminent threat.” (TNND)
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said, “It was my opinion that they were going to attack first.”
The day before, Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted,” There absolutely was an imminent threat.”
During Wednesday’s Press briefing at the Pentagon, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talked about the historical reasons. “They’ve been killing Americans for 47 years. They have thousands of missiles pointed at us.”
But some experts say a central, overwhelming but underlying mission in all of this could also be China.
In an interview with The National News Desk on Thursday, Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer said: Think about this in a matter ofdays. They’ve had two of their most important allies in the developing world effectively taken offline.
In the span of two months, two very pro-Iranian leaders have been removed.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the initial attack over the weekend
In early January, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, arrested by the United States, was President Xi Jinping’s most important friend in the Western Hemisphere.
“This affects China’s economy at a time when it’s already fragile,” said Gordon Chang, Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute. “You have a Chinese economy that is addicted to discounted oil because China has been buying sanctioned crude, for instance, from Iran and Venezuela, and now they’re going to have to pay market prices if they can find it at all.”
The state-run Xinhua News Agency reported on a phone call between leaders of China and Iran in which China said “China cherishes the traditional friendship between China and Iran, supports Iran in defending its sovereignty and security”
Indeed, that friendship has played out for years in the form of support from China
Despite global sanctions on Iranian oil, China was its number one customer, buying up about 90% of it, also supplying Iran several components for weapons, and by some accounts, the weapons themselves, which in some cases haven’t worked..
“That is a huge problem for China because as they are trying to lure other developing world countries to come into their orbit, one of their selling points was will give you all this great military equipment well if it’s not working well in comparison to the United States that’s not a very attractive bargain,” Schweizer said.
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