Zarshanas: The internal Western trend prevented the expansion of Iran's relations with China and Russia Shahriar Zarshanas, political science expert and professor at Soura University: Contrary to Israel's dependence on America, Iran can maintain independent and equal relations with China and Russia, but the internal Western liberal current prevented the expansion of these collaborations for years. The Western trend, having the executive power, the economic ministries, the central bank and the important parts of the decision-making in the country, I believe, destroyed the great opportunities of cooperation with the Eastern powers. The same trend calls the long-term agreement with China "Turkmenchai", but it itself defended the JCPOA; An agreement whose trigger mechanism eventually became a tool against Iran.