Editorial - Homayoun Barkhor
By Homayoun Barkhor, English Desk Editor & Foreign Policy Analyst, Borna News Agency: The 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi showed that despite accounting for 40 percent of the global economy, the bloc — hampered by the absence of a shared identity, internal rivalries such as the tensions between Beijing and New Delhi, and conflicting security interests in crises like the Iran-US war — has still failed to convert its material and political capacity into a cohesive power bloc.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/19
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi met in Beijing to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/16
Expressing Beijing's "deep concern" over the recent escalation of tensions in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region, the Chinese foreign minister called for the immediate implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed between Iran and the United States.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/16
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, who is also member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, in the capital Beijing on Wednesday.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/16
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has announced an upcoming visit by Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi to Beijing.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/15
Reports suggesting that Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed Iran’s special representative for China affairs have been denied.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/14
China and Russia jointly opposed Western positions regarding Iran’s nuclear program during a United Nations Security Council session, warning that attempts to reinstate sanctions undermine international peace and security.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/10
Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, stated on Thursday that fully resuming the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) verification activities at Iranian nuclear facilities hinges on receiving credible guarantees from the United States and Israel regarding the non-use of force.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/10
Qatar's Foreign Ministry announced that the country, together with regional and international partners, is working to resume negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/08
China’s Commerce Ministry called on the United States to lift sanctions against Iran as well as measures targeting Chinese companies and citizens, while warning against using the Group of 20 as a platform to exert economic pressure on Beijing.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/03
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Tuesday for an end to external interference in sovereign nations' domestic affairs and urged the global community to abandon double standards and the "law of the jungle."
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Publish Date: 2026/09/01
President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a brief meeting Wednesday on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Kyrgyzstan.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/01
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi engaged in extensive diplomatic outreach in Bishkek on Tuesday, holding series of bilateral and multilateral meetings with counterparts on the sidelines of the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in the Kyrgyz capital.
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Publish Date: 2026/09/01
The annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Bishkek could offer a rare opportunity for bilateral meetings between member-state leaders — including Iran and China — on its sidelines, potentially charting a new course for implementing the 25-year cooperation agreement and laying groundwork for future collaboration.
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Publish Date: 2026/08/30
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to arrive in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, on Monday for a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The summit comes as some member states remain engaged in war and others contend with trade and economic crises stemming from Western sanctions.
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Publish Date: 2026/08/30
The New York Times has outlined five major warning signs that, taken together, could push the world toward a broader global conflict, pointing to the interconnection of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, tensions over Taiwan and North Korea, divisions within the West and mounting vulnerabilities in the global economy.
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Publish Date: 2026/08/27
China is unlikely to join Washington’s new economic campaign against Iran, analysts told CNN, arguing that Beijing does not want to become an instrument of US “maximum pressure” and retains significant economic leverage over the United States.
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Publish Date: 2026/08/27
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says China's rejection of the latest round of US sanctions against Iran shows the strategic partnership between the two allies goes well beyond routine international relations, which can be subject to third-party threats and sanctions.
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Publish Date: 2026/08/27
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran and China have significant potential to contribute to a fairer international order and strengthen multilateralism, peace, and stability.
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Publish Date: 2026/08/24
China’s ambassador to Iran said Beijing seeks stronger and broader relations with Tehran, describing the 55th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries as an opportunity to open a new chapter of deeper and more effective cooperation.
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Publish Date: 2026/08/18