Joint Military Bases, Silk Route Access to China In Return for Buying Oil: Tehran-Beijing deal

Details of a compressive Iran-China “quarter-century deal” in the making has emerged which will allow the setting of joint military bases, Beijing buying one billion barrels of Iranian Oil per day and ‘Silk Route’ trading initiative to pass through Iran.

Military agreement:

As part of the military agreement, joint military bases are planned around the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, Tehran and Beijing will allow one another’s ships and aircraft to refuel and dock at each other’s airports and ports.

Beijing pledges to help Tehran develop its air, sea and land weaponry. A proposal to establish Chinese weapons production plants on Iranian soil is under consideration.

Silk route

According to details of the draft agreement available with several Iranian accounts on social media, Beijing would change the Silk Road Map, to which Beijing had allocated five billion dollars, to pass through Iran instead of the Arabian Peninsula.

Iran guarantees the extension and security of the road that includes a railway and a highway from the Iranian ports of Bandar Abbas and Chabahar to the Mediterranean via Iraq and Syria.

The plan includes extending a gas and oil pipeline from southern Iran to the Mediterranean, connected to the Syrian port of Baniyas and the Lebanese port of Tripoli. Tehran has already obtained Damascus’s approval to manage the Banias port in the form of long-term investment.

This part of the agreement includes cooperation with Russia, to link the Sea of ​​Oman and the Persian Gulf with northern Europe through Azerbaijan, Russia and the coast of southern Iran with the Baltic Sea.

Chinese companies will undertake the modernization of Iran’s railways to run trains up to speeds of about 400 kilometers per hour, which can deliver goods from the ports of Chabahar and Bandar Abbas to St. Petersburg in less than 24 hours.

Iranian oil purchase

China pledges to buy at least one million Iranian oil barrels per day and pay for it in Chinese currency, Yuan, while allowing Iran to buy warehouses in China to store oil and re-export it tax free. China will also purchase a similar amount of petrochemicals and treated fuels from Iranian refineries.

China is investing in oil and gas extraction facilities in southern Iran in exchange for 25-year investment contracts.

Renting Iranian islands for tourism

Iran is securing special tourist areas for the Chinese that are not subject to Islamic laws regarding food, drink, and clothing. This includes leasing to Beijing lands on the islands of Kish and Qeshm, and some small islands in the Gulf and in the Iranian free trade zones for 25 years.

Technology

Chinese companies will secure 5G Internet infrastructure in Iran, in exchange for Tehran helping Beijing obtain 5G contracts through joint companies in Iranian spheres of influence including Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Lebanon.

The two countries are seeking to obtain, through joint companies, contracts for extraction of oil and gas in the Mediterranean Sea on the shores of Syria and Lebanon, and to secure electric power for the countries of West Asia.

This clause provides that Tehran will ensure that contracts are awarded to Chinese companies in the event of any agreement leading to the lifting of sanctions on Iran.

Factories and construction

Tehran gives Beijing comprehensive tax exemptions, secures its land in the form of investment for 25 years, to build Chinese factories inside Iran in exchange for operating with Iranian labor (at least 60 percent of workers) and transferring technology to Iran.

And China, through joint construction companies with Tehran will build about six million apartments during a five-year period in Iran. These companies participate in contracts for dams and engineering installations inside and outside Iran in West Asia and Africa.

Cultivation, fishing and digital currency

China will invest in agriculture in Iran through Chinese companies obtaining 25 year land leases. Iran will allow Chinese companies to fish in Iranian territorial waters for 25 years for 10 billion dollars annually, provided that Chinese ships do not approach the Iranian coasts more than 8 nautical miles and allow Iranian fishermen to fish.

Iran allows China to establish farms to extract a digital currency on its soil, which can benefit from the production of electricity via solar energy and distribute the profits of the factories equally between the two countries.

Iran allows Chinese companies to extract non-strategic minerals from their lands, recycle them inside Iran, or export them to China or any other country.