First of all, I hardly think that petro-rich rulers feel any threat from underfunded disorganized NGO`s. Thats like saying the President is worried about losing power to a coalition of violent street gangs. Therefore, there must be a larger concern somewhere, one that is significant on a regional or global scale. Something that can alter the balance of power, and it should be obvious, not theoretical in a worst-case-scenario kind of way, but in a pragmatic and probable kind of way.
That dynamic is the developing relationship between China and Iran. China has the money, manpower, resources, and 10.7% economic growth representing 1.3 billion people. They need oil and more than happy to use Iran as a proxy vs. US power. Hence China will be trading arms and technology to Iran as well.
Iran is more than eager to take advantage of it, for obvious reasons, and is clearly already abusing this nascent support. |
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