NO MORE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE FOR THE USA AND ISRAEL WITH AN ATTACK ON IRAN.  The Chinese have come to the side of Iran.  YEP.  The Chinese have deployed Type 055 vessels to the waters around Iran, the same areas with the USA ships that Trump recently deployed.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?  With the Type 055 and the Liaowang-1 surveillance vessel now positioned in the Gulf of Oman, Iran enjoys a 24/7 “god’s eye view” of US Navy movements. Through integration with China’s Beidou satellite network, the Islamic Republic now possesses intelligence capabilities rivalling top-tier NATO members.

“Every carrier movement, every aerial refuelling track, every missile cruiser repositioning is now visible to Tehran in near-real-time,” noted one Pentagon official speaking on background. “We’ve lost the element of surprise we’ve relied on for decades.”

WHY WOULD CHINA DO THIS?  WELL, DUH. For Beijing, this is neither ideological posturing nor empty symbolism—it is cold strategic calculation. Iran represents the indispensable Western node of the Belt and Road Initiative, the critical energy supplier that cannot be permitted to fall under Western control. As China’s Foreign Ministry stated in a recent declaration on Cuba that applies equally to Iran: “China strongly urges the United States to immediately cancel all sanctions in accordance with the United Nations Charter and international law.” The loss of Iran to a NATO-aligned entity would constitute an unmitigated economic and geopolitical disaster that Beijing is manifestly unwilling to permit.