{"id":3082,"date":"2015-10-15T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T15:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2015-10-15T15:07:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T15:07:02","slug":"china-iran-boost-defense-ties-to-promote-regional-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/china-iran-boost-defense-ties-to-promote-regional-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Iran boost defense ties to promote regional peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The trip aims to &#8216;promote the preservation of international and regional peace and stability,&#8217; Chinese Admiral says<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TEHRAN, (Iran) &#8211; A high-ranking Chinese military delegation headed by the country\u2019s deputy chief of joint staff of army visited Tehran on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Admiral Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of staff of the People&#8217;s Liberation Army, told Iranian Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan that China paid great attention to developing relations with Iran, China&#8217;s Defence Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The aim of this delegation&#8217;s visit is to further promote friendship, deepen cooperation and exchange views with Iran on bilateral military ties and issues of mutual concern,&#8221; Sun said, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trip will also &#8220;promote the preservation of international and regional peace and stability&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chinese delegation was greeted by Iran&#8217;s Armed Forces Joint Affairs chief Mohammad Baqeri, Asriran reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baqeri said, \u201cIran and China enjoy similar positions and we are going to strengthen our military ties as we have our economic ties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe hold the same position regarding America\u2019s unilateralism and are looking forward to forming an Asian structure and promoting the Shanghai agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trip aims to &#8216;promote the preservation of international and regional peace and stability,&#8217; Chinese Admiral says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[137,45,6,30,356,5],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-defense","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/iran-china.jpg?fit=600%2C322&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-NI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}