# Has China become Iran’s biggest economic lifeline?

https://mins.news/en/video/33087

- TRT World, 2026-08-26 12:41 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiU_xWjrHf0

> After Washington announced Operation Economic Outcast, a sweeping campaign to isolate Tehran from the global financial system, China urged the US not to disrupt its cooperation with Iran. Council on Foreign Relations Fellow for China Studies Zongyuan Zoe Liu examines the relationship.

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