{"id":202837,"date":"2026-01-06T13:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202837"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:47:15","slug":"irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202837","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s China pivot deepens as Tehran&#8217;s thaw with Saudi Arabia gets reality check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a Tehran trilateral meeting between China and Saudi Arabia, Iranian officials performed careful diplomatic choreography, seeking Beijing\u2019s backing to revive the sluggish rapprochement with Riyadh and to reposition the Islamic Republic within shifting postwar dynamics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/12\/irans-china-pivot-deepens-tehrans-thaw-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Tehran trilateral meeting between China and Saudi Arabia, Iranian officials performed careful diplomatic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check.jpeg",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check-300x157.jpeg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check-768x402.jpeg",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check-1024x536.jpeg",640,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check.jpeg",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check.jpeg",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check-1024x536.jpeg",1024,536,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202837-irans-china-pivot-deepens-as-tehrans-thaw-with-saudi-arabia-gets-reality-check-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}