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China, India, Russia Key to Iran War's End, US Warns
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In Short: The 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi seeks to address regional conflicts, with Iran, Russia, and China among attendees.
At the 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi, leaders from Iran, Russia, and China joined India to address regional tensions, particularly in the Middle East.
India's Ministry of External Affairs worked diligently to produce a draft acceptable to all members, overcoming earlier divisions to issue a joint statement.
The summit includes countries that are strategic rivals, such as India and China, and states directly at war, like the UAE and Iran.
India's balancing act reflects its broader foreign policy, which seeks to maintain strong ties with Washington while engaging Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran.
The BRICS alliance, established in 2006, has expanded to include nations such as Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
Iran's attendance at the summit marks a rare opportunity for the country to engage several key trading partners collectively, as the U.S. continues to impose sanctions.
Background
This is a list of wars involving the Islamic Republic of Iran, excluding its predecessor states. It is an unfinished historical overview.
What's confirmed
- At the 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi, leaders from Iran, Russia, and China joined India to address regional tensions, particularly in the Middle East.
- India's Ministry of External Affairs worked diligently to produce a draft acceptable to all members, overcoming earlier divisions to issue a joint statement.
- The summit includes countries that are strategic rivals, such as India and China, and states directly at war, like the UAE and Iran.
- India's balancing act reflects its broader foreign policy, which seeks to maintain strong ties with Washington while engaging Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran.
- The BRICS alliance, established in 2006, has expanded to include nations such as Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
- Iran's attendance at the summit marks a rare opportunity for the country to engage several key trading partners collectively, as the U.S. continues to impose sanctions.
What's still developing
- Beijing buys the majority of Iran’s exported oil, much of it through intermediaries outside formal dollar clearing systems, and has done so through years of sanctions with only modest disruption.
- A settlement that allows expanded, formalized Chinese investment, perhaps folded into the 25-year cooperation agreement the two countries signed in 2021, gives Iran an economic future independent of American sanctions relief.
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- However determined Western governments may be to turn Russia and Iran into pariah states, much of the Global South rejects their isolation.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China President Xi Jinping join hands at the 18th BRICS summit at New Delhi, India, Sept.
- India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit with considerable success and impact.
- More importantly, it is evolving into a global platform that can help its members move, as India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi put it, from being “rule takers” to becoming “rule makers.” India achieved something that had seemed nearly impossible only a few months ago: securing the unanimous endorsement of a joint declaration by all BRICS nations.
- At the May meeting of BRICS foreign ministers, deep internal disagreements — particularly between India, which was reluctant to condemn Israel and the United States, and other members that sought such condemnation over the Israeli-U.S.