In August 2020, Iran tested a new land transit route that connected Iran, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, as part of the trial run of the route, according to RT. From the Iranian port of Shahid-Rajai in the southern port city of Bandar-e ´Abb?s a cargo was sent to Uzbekistan via Afghanistan, and it arrived at the site without obstacles.

This route is one of many included in the roadmap of the Chinese New Silk Road, which connects China with Europe through the Middle East, and in this Belt and Road Initiative, a global chinese infrastructure project, Iran is assigned a major role in transport, energy and, more importantly, a role in the field of route safety.

While the United States is fighting Iran through the United Nations, trying to extend the arms embargo and trying to restore sanctions, and Russia and China are pushing for a European coalition for the fact that the United States unilaterally withdrew itself legally from the nuclear deal with Iran and now the fate of Iran is being decided without them. China and Iran began implement their action plan by testing running transport hubs.

This partnership formally began back in 2016 with Xi Jinping´s visit to Tehran. But since Trump destroyed the nuclear deal in 2018 and withdrew from the deal and all countries doing business with Iran were in danger of sanctions, the Sino-Iranian alliance went into the shadows and was severely punished by Washington (war with Huawei and the arrest of the daughter of the founder of the company Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver, etc.).

The document, labeled "final version", is dated June 2020

The Indian newspaper Financial Express writes that China should invest $120 billion to modernize Iran´s transport infrastructure, starting with a 2,300 km road that will connect Tehran with Urumqi, a city in China´s Xinjiang province. This road will be connected to the Urumqi - Gwadar line, developed within the framework of the Sino-Pakistani economic corridor of the New Silk Road, and will connect Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and then through Turkey to Europe.

Of course, looking at the map and the routes being laid, it is difficult to resist the obvious associations: scarlet valleys of poppies, peasants harvesting crops, ships and trains with bales, the famous Chinese opium wars, but official protocols are trying to cool the fervor: we are talking about the development of Uzbek and other Central Asian exports: cotton, dried fruits, various chemical materials.

"The pilot opening of this corridor indicates that Afghanistan is serious about developing transit through its territory and connecting the countries of Central Asia with southern waters, including ports along the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman" Mustafa Ayati said. Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration IRICA.

The Gulf of Oman is also included in the map - a four-sided Agreement on the creation of an international transport and transit corridor between the governments of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Oman.

But all of these transport routes must be perfectly secured. Especially in such a difficult hot region.

According to Sputniknews, a military alliance between China and the countries of Central Asia has been formed. Its key point is Tajikistan which is the center of confrontation between India and China. A real military alliance for counter-terrorism cooperation was formed in 2016, it is called ???? - "Azhongbata" (Afghanistan; A, China; Zhong, Pakistan; Ba, Tajikistan; Ta). The level and compromise of the alliance is very high, suffice it to say that before the "coronation" of the Chief of the General Staff, Li Zocheng participated in the meeting where the alliance was formally formed, after which he received a new position. It is a full-fledged anti-Indian alliance led by China.

But in this military alliance between China and the states of Central Asia, Iran is not included. Although, the closest military cooperation between China and Iran is a historical fact, moreover, it can be said that Iran is just covering up Chinese interests in the Middle East in sensitive issues of security and military strategy. Why is there no Iran in this alliance?

Iran, which is not officially a member of the anti-Indian Chinese alliance, acts as a moderator and mediator of complex Sino-Indian relations through the most important and sensitive point - the Iranian port of Chabahar, which is part of the free economic zone. It is the only ocean port in Iran, which has about 300 km of water border with the Gulf of Oman, and is one of the ten most important strategic ports in the world. About the port Marco Polo wrote: "Many merchants who travel across the sea stop there. A lot of goods are taken from there by land roads." Chabahar is a crossroads of West-East and North-South roads.

In 2016, India, Iran and Afghanistan signed an agreement on the creation of a transport and transit corridor using Chabahar, connecting the region with Central Asia, and then, in 2017, India sent its first consignment of export wheat through this port, and in 2018 in New Delhi, Iranian President Rouhani signed an agreement to lease India one of the two Chabahar ports, the Shahid-Beheshti, according to Indiatimes.

For India, blocked in the West by Pakistan (the keys to which, again, China has today - through the CPEC, China Pakistan Economic Corridor), Chabahar is the most important export channel for rice, wheat and others to Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

The moment for the Sino-Iranian-Russian game is perfect: Trump is isolating America more and more, withdrawing from international agreements, completely destroying the status quo created after World War II.

The United States, preoccupied with its domestic affairs and problems, with its aggressive foreign policy, is no longer playing the role of hegemon. At the same time, a great Eurasian geopolitical project is being created before our eyes.

The Eurasian project connects China and Europe with multiple arteries and vessels of transport routes, pipelines, telecommunications, financial systems and railways.

The Tehran Times does not hide its glee: "The timing of the deal could not have been better for the Islamic Republic. For China and the United States in a squabble, the Iran-China deal will further worsen bilateral ties between the world´s two largest economies." Translating Persian diplomacy: a deal with us will push China and the United States even more apart, making their reconciliation (dangerous to our survival) almost impossible, which means China will stay with us. And if the US wants to renegotiate, it will have to pay more than China is offering.

"Iran is the key to China´s plans, just as China´s plans are the key to the fate of Eurasia," Robert Kaplan writes in The New York Times.

So, in the summer of 2020, we are recording: the first transport and transit lines of the New Silk Road as with Huawei´s telecommunications infrastructure in Asia have already been launched.