July 9, 2020

ANOTHER SHAMEFUL TREATY IS ON THE WAY FOR THE OPPRESSED IRANIAN PEOPLE

On June 21, 2020, the government of the Islamic Republic in Iran approved the draft agreement for a "25-year comprehensive cooperation plan between Iran and China" and instructed its Minister of Foreign Affairs to promote this program. With the approval of this agreement, the rumors on social media that had started 4 years ago about a secret agreement with China has come true and once again proves that the Islamic Republic continues to sell pieces of Iran in order to survive a bit longer.

According to the published information, the first preparations for this Agreement had started 4 years ago, and now the approval of its draft by the government has once again highlighted the consequences of this ambiguous, humiliating, and shameful so called “cooperation”. So far, the following items of this Agreement have been published in social media:

1. China will invest $400 billion in Iran: $280 billion in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, most of which will be injected into the Iranian oil and gas industry in the first two years of the 25-year Agreement, and equivalent to $120 billion will be invested on developing production, transportation and transportation infrastructures.

2- Chinese companies will be able to operate inside Iran without any formal bidding and competition.

3. Five thousand Chinese security personnel will be deployed in Iran to protect Chinese investments and projects in Iran.

4- The Islamic Republic will sell Iranian oil and gas and petrochemical products to China at a 12% discount.

5. China will pay for the imported Iranian petroleum products with a two-year delay and in Chinese Yuan and even in currencies of African countries and currency of the newly established countries which gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The New Iran (“TNI”) expresses its deep concern regarding the above, which is only a small part of the catastrophic 25-year plan with China, and which endangers the national sovereignty and national interests of the Iranians. TNI strongly opposes such secret agreements which are clearly against the national interest of the Iranian people. The New Iran, in cooperation with its other IRI opposition groups will do its best to prevent the finalization of this shameful Agreement.

The world, and especially the Chinese government, should know that any agreement that the jihadist and terrorist Islamic regime in Iran executes with foreign parties where the agreement is against the will of the Iranian people and without consideration of the Iranian national benefits, is not considered valid and legitimate by the Iranian people.

The New Iran