{"id":21880,"date":"2026-03-24T18:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21880"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:07:52","slug":"beyond-the-narrative-why-iran-is-chinas-eternal-backup-plan-digging-into-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21880","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Narrative: Why Iran is China\u2019s Eternal &#8220;Backup Plan&#8221; | Digging into China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>China helped Iran start its nuclear program in the 1980s and continued helping them in the 1990s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has a business relationship with Iran. They are not actual friends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beyond the Narrative: Why Iran is China\u2019s Eternal &quot;Backup Plan&quot; | Digging into China\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAY1Po5Ixek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China helped Iran start its nuclear program in the 1980s and continued helping them in the 1990s. <\/p>\n<p>China has a business relationship with Iran. They are not actual friends. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zAY1Po5Ixek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[13],"tags":[89,314,156,180,994],"class_list":["post-21880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21881,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880\/revisions\/21881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}