Reuters: Billion-Dollar Scheme Kept Chinese Goods Flowing to Iran Under Sanctions
🏭 SANCTIONS — China's trade lifeline to Iran survived the war; here's how. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A billion-dollar evasion network means Iran's war economy isn't as isolated as Washington's sanctions architecture claims. If Chinese goods — likely dual-use industrial and tech components — kept flowing, Iran's attrition calculus shifts: the cost of sustaining conflict is lower than US planners assumed. This also hands Beijing plausible deniability while deepening Tehran's structural dependency on Chinese supply chains.
