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How Much Influence Does China Have on Iran?

As the US and the EU prepare a sanction regime targeting Iranian oil exports in an effort to influence Iran’s nuclear ambitions, China has made careful political steps to distance itself from Iran: a state-owned bank has pulled its investment out of an Iran-Pakistan pipeline construction project, and it has significantly cut its oil imports from Iran. From Bloomberg Businessweek: China, the b