00:00But with China staying restrained at the moment to protect its priorities and Russia tied down
00:06by the war in Ukraine, how much support can Iran realistically expect from its traditional
00:12allies in this conflict who have been China and Russia? Yeah, I think what's very notable in this
00:18in this conflict is that Iran really has no friends that it can rely upon for substantive
00:24support, right? The Russians have said that they support Iran within the last couple of days. But
00:30what does that actually mean? Is Putin sending troops to Iran? Is he diverting troops from Ukraine
00:37to Iran? Of course not. Is he providing ammunition to Iran? No, the Russians worry about their own
00:43ammunition supplies. Same thing with China. China has been very circumspect about the war against Iran
00:50and whether it wants to support it in any way other than rhetorical. I mean, if you look at
00:55the run-up to the war, China was providing Iran with certain dual-use technologies that it could
01:02use. But other than that, China has been extremely cautious. And especially now that the U.S. and
01:08Israel on one side are fighting Iran on the other, China is content to sit back and see what happens
01:13and then use the aftermath to its strategic opportunity.
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