I can do that because we have something that they want,” the president said of a deal with China. “We have a pot of gold.”

Tehran’s growing reliance on Beijing is a consequence of the battering its missile program has had from Israeli strikes and highlights the alignment of Iran and China with Russia and North Korea.

Citing intelligence from security services of two Western countries, the report specifies that the Golbon and Jairan ships, sailing under the Iranian flag, will transport over 1,000 tons of sodium perchlorate,

Iranian cargo ships allegedly carrying chemicals to make missile propellent are setting sail from China to deliver the shipment to Tehran's army.

The president says he “would rather not” impose tariffs on China, while saying it was his “one very big power” over Beijing.

Once China produced weapons-grade uranium, it assembled its first atomic bomb in as little as three to five weeks. Iran may do it even faster.

In Davos, Mohammad Javad Zarif also says Israel failed in its Gaza war objectives, Tehran not building nukes; report says Iran to receive missile fuel shipment from China

US President stresses in interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, suggests a deal with the Iranians can be reached: I want them to have a great country. They have great potential.

The Iranian regime has never looked so weak and vulnerable, with its empire of terror in tatters (thanks to Israel) and mounting crises at home (thanks to its corruption). Amid the doom and gloom, Iranian elites have at least been able to count on the continued flow of oil revenues needed to line their own pockets,

The first month of 2025 is almost over and, within these few days, signs of a coming sea-change in Asia’s geopolitics have already started taking shape, with Pakistan making rapid strides in Bangladesh,

China is responding to Trump's energy-centric executive actions with a global diplomatic blitz. China courts the Middle East without push back from Washington.