China’s policy toward the Islamic Republic has been increasingly shifting in favor of the Iranian regime rather than the US in recent years, partially thanks to the trade war between Washington and Beijing. This trend is unlikely to change in the near future.

There has hardly been any period in the four-decade history of the Iranian regime that it has not had in its custody a foreign national.

The new Iranian government under Ebrahim Raisi has declared that its major priority is to improve relationships with other countries in the region. But the Islamic Republic needs to take several crucial steps in order to achieve such an objective.

The latest developments indicate that the Iranian regime is heading toward becoming a nuclear state, which will have significant repercussions for regional and global peace and security.

As the Iranian regime prepares to confront a host of domestic crises by installing Ebrahim Raisi as president, it finds itself fighting another losing battle, this time against growing resistance at home and a determined opposition force seeking its overthrow.