“Iran's grandiloquent narratives about 'non-Western' powers and organisations like the SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organisation] in precipitating a shift in the balance of power away from the US belies the fact that the SCO lacks the ability to foster deeper integration between these regional and great powers. There is no Russia-China-Iran axis with formalised commitments akin to an alliance, and the SCO certainly will not provide the institutional structure for such an alliance.”
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