{"id":36693,"date":"2018-08-16T06:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36693"},"modified":"2018-08-16T06:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:23:54","slug":"economic-war-on-iran-is-war-on-eurasia-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36693","title":{"rendered":"Economic war on Iran is war on Eurasia integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/economic-war-on-iran-is-war-on-eurasia-integration\/\">Economic war on Iran is war on Eurasia integration<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"underline\"><strong>US sanctions on Iran should be interpreted as a piece in a much larger chessboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy attachment-9columns size-9columns wp-post-image\" title=\"US to enforce sanctions against Iran\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atimes.com\/uploads\/2018\/08\/iran-sanctions-960x576.jpg\" alt=\"Life carries on in Tehran despite the threat of US sanctions. Photo: Anadolu Agency\/Fatemeh Bahrami\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Life carries on in Tehran despite the threat of US sanctions. Photo: Anadolu Agency\/Fatemeh Bahrami<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content  sticky-sidebar-relative\">\n<div class=\"content-read-more\">\n<p>Hysteria reigned supreme after the first round of US sanctions were reinstated against Iran over the past week. War scenarios abound, and yet the key aspect of the economic war unleashed by the Trump administration has been overlooked: Iran is a major piece in a much larger chessboard.<\/p>\n<p>The US sanctions offensive, launched after Washington\u2019s unilateral pullout from the Iran nuclear deal, should be interpreted as an advance gambit in the New Great Game at whose center lies China\u2019s New Silk Road \u2013 arguably the most important infrastructure project of the 21st century \u2014 and overall Eurasia integration.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s maneuvers are a testament to how China\u2019s New Silk Road, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), threaten the US establishment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eurasian integration on the rise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eurasian integration is on display in Astana, where Russia, Iran and Turkey are deciding the fate of Syria, in coordination with Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s strategic depth in post-war Syria simply won\u2019t vanish. The challenge of Syrian reconstruction will be met largely by Bashar al-Assad\u2019s allies: China, Russia and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing the Ancient Silk Road, Syria will be configured as an important BRI node, key to Eurasia integration.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel, the Russia-China strategic partnership \u2013 from the intersection between the BRI and the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) to the expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the solidifying of BRICS Plus \u2014 has immense economic stakes in the stability of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The complex interconnection of Iran with both Russia (via the EAEU and the International North-South Transportation Corridor) and China (via BRI and oil\/gas supplies) is even tighter than in the case of Syria in the past seven years of civil war.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic war on Iran is war on Eurasia integration US sanctions on Iran should be interpreted as a piece in a much larger chessboard Life carries on in Tehran despite the threat of US sanctions. Photo: Anadolu Agency\/Fatemeh Bahrami Hysteria reigned supreme after the first round of US sanctions were reinstated against Iran over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1997,2369,441,4076,20920,827],"class_list":["post-36693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-eurasia","tag-iran","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-the-asia-times","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36694,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693\/revisions\/36694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}