🔶 Beijing's request to Tehran to curb the Houthi attacks

🔶 Beijing's request to Tehran to curb the Houthi attacks

The Reuters news agency reported on Friday 27 Shahrivar (September 18), citing three knowledgeable Iranian sources, that after China requested Saudi Arabia's help from Beijing, it privately demanded that Tehran take action to stop the Houthi infiltration in Yemen.

According to these sources, Saudi Arabia sought help from China after the rapid advance of the Iran-backed Houthis last week along the coast of the Red Sea and around the Strait of Belmandab. These developments put Saudi oil exports and shipping at increasing risk.

In its public positions, China has called for restraint, talk and reestablishing shipping security, but according to Reuters sources, Beijing's private message to Tehran went beyond those official and public positions.

Beijing demands that Iran use its infiltration of the Houthis to prevent further conflict spreading to energy transmission routes; The routes that China, as the second largest economy in the world, depends on.