Representatives from China and Russia reportedly met with a top Houthi official named Mohammed Abdel Salam in Oman this week to hammer out a safe-passage agreement that will protect Chinese and Russian vessels in the Red Sea.The Houthi terror campaign was supposedly focused on ships registered to Israel or its close allies — such as the United States and the United Kingdom — but the Yemeni insurgents have attacked numerous vessels that did not meet those conditions.
In exchange for guaranteed safe passage, the Chinese and Russians evidently promised “political support for the Houthis in bodies such as the United Nations Security Council.” The most obvious support Beijing and Moscow could offer would be using their veto powers to block U.N. resolutions against the Houthis, a service their primary patrons in Iran cannot provide.
Kurilla said China’s safe passage was, in part, a reward for continuing to buy Iranian oil through “dark fleets” of sanctions-evading oil tankers, which illegally shut off their identification and tracking systems so they could perform clandestine cargo transfers at sea. He said Iran has invested its profits from these oil sales in developing the drones it sells to Russia for use against Ukraine.
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