RAMIN MAZAHERI—In reading OilPrice over the years I am not surprised: they have repeatedly reacted to the bilateral 25-year strategic agreement – which has just been fully signed – as though it was something which had not been in discussion for years; with total consternation as to why these two countries could want to ally with other; with an Iranophobia so enormous that their bias is rarely even barely concealed.
The outlook of their journalists is that of businessmen, and thus it’s the incredibly narrow and self-serving point of view of a specialist. It is unsurprising that – when compelled to formulate a political or moral viewpoint – OilPrice has a totally Cold War view of the world, which is typical in the West, and which explains why their headline calls it an “Iran-China Axis” instead of an “Alliance”. The use of such a term is typical Western media propaganda designed to conflate the right-wing Germans of the World War II era with modern Iran and China, even thought the latter are totally different from the former in political ideology, economic structure and social morality.