Rai al-Youm: US war against Iran has strengthened Moscow–Tehran–Beijing alliance

Pars Today – The electronic newspaper Rai al-Youm described one of the consequences of the United States’ miscalculations in its war against Iran as the deepening of strategic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing alongside Tehran.

According to Pars Today, citing Tasnim News Agency, in continuation of international and regional analyses on the global implications of a war with Iran for the United States, the London-based electronic newspaper Rai al-Youm published an article titled: “How the US-Israeli war against Iran is pushing Moscow and Beijing toward a deeper strategic partnership.”

The article stated that both Russia and China have realized that what is happening in the region is not limited to Iran alone, but is linked to the future of the global balance of power. For Russia, any attempt to weaken Iran effectively means reducing one of Moscow’s most important axes of anti-Western influence in Eurasia and the region.

For China as well, destabilizing Iran directly threatens China’s energy security, the routes of the Belt and Road Initiative, and the stability of the Persian Gulf, on which Beijing is economically and strategically dependent.

For this reason, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing appears to be an attempt to coordinate a strategic response to a new phase of escalating US tensions.

Moscow understands that Washington, within the framework of a comprehensive American vision to re-establish Western hegemony over the international system, seeks to rearrange its global priorities by containing China in the Indo-Pacific region, weakening Russia in Europe, and encircling Iran in the region.

However, the war against Iran has, in many of Washington’s calculations, produced the opposite results. Instead of dismantling the Russia–China–Iran axis, these pressures have pushed the three sides toward greater convergence.

As Western pressure intensifies, Moscow and Beijing are increasingly convinced that this conflict is no longer about separate files, but about the future of a multipolar world confronting a unipolar order led by the United States since the end of the Cold War.

Moscow and Beijing no longer view their cooperation as a temporary tactical alliance, but rather as a long-term strategic necessity to counter growing US pressure. After Western sanctions, Russia needs China economically and technologically, while China depends on Russia as a source of energy and a geopolitical and military partner capable of balancing US influence.

More importantly, both Beijing and Moscow share the belief that the West uses sanctions, international institutions, military alliances, and even human rights and democracy dossiers as tools to redesign the global balance of power in order to preserve US hegemony.

At the heart of this equation, Iran has become a strategic intersection point between Moscow and Beijing. Russia views Tehran as an advanced defensive line against US influence in the region, while China sees Iran as a vital gateway for energy and trade routes to Central Asia and the broader region.