{"id":45475,"date":"2025-03-14T05:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45475"},"modified":"2025-03-14T05:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:20:21","slug":"china-russia-and-iran-hold-talks-in-beijing-as-trump-pushes-for-new-nuclear-deal-with-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45475","title":{"rendered":"China, Russia and Iran hold talks in Beijing as Trump pushes for new nuclear deal with Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CNN \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

China<\/a> is hosting diplomats from Iran and Russia for talks on Tehran\u2019s nuclear program Friday as Beijing aims to position itself as a power broker on an issue seen internationally as a pressing security concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu sat down with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi in the Chinese capital for a meeting \u201con the Iranian nuclear issue,\u201d state media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The talks come as countries face pressure to find diplomatic solutions \u2013 or trigger a return to sanctions \u2013 as a key deadline from a 2015 Iran nuclear deal looms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump, who pulled the United States out of that agreement during his first term in office, is also pushing for a new deal<\/a>, while European powers have held multiple rounds of talks with Tehran in recent months on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an increasing sense of urgency around finding a diplomatic path to rein in Iran\u2019s nuclear program amid conflict in the Middle East<\/a>. The United Nations nuclear watchdog warns<\/a> that Iran has rapidly expanded its stock<\/a> of what is considered near-bomb-grade uranium. Iran denies it wants a nuclear bomb and insists that its nuclear energy program is \u201centirely peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s onto this stage that China now steps with its own diplomatic push, which observers say fits with Beijing\u2019s aim to position itself as an alternative global leader to the US<\/a> \u2013 a goal Chinese leaders see more opportunity to achieve as Trump shakes up foreign policy with his \u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChina is increasingly motivated to deepen its involvement (in the Iran nuclear issue) to safeguard its interests, expand its regional influence and reinforce its image as a responsible global power,\u201d said Tong Zhao, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By having both Russia and Iran in the room, China \u201cmay also aim to highlight the significance of non-Western approaches to resolving global challenges,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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China’s Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu (center) hosts Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi (left) and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Beijing on Friday. Courtesy CCTV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN \u2014  China is hosting diplomats from Iran and Russia for talks on Tehran\u2019s nuclear program Friday as Beijing aims to position itself as a power broker on an issue seen internationally as a pressing security concern. China\u2019s Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu sat down with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi in the Chinese capital for a meeting \u201con the Iranian nuclear issue,\u201d state media reported. The talks come as countries face pressure to find diplomatic solutions \u2013 or trigger a return to sanctions \u2013 as a key deadline from a 2015 Iran… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45477,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45475\/revisions\/45477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}