Greetings and welcome to this edition of Faith
to Live By. I'm Pam Christian, your host, where
each week I seek to help us explore current events
from a biblical and prophetic perspective. I
am sincerely honored to have as my guest today
Jan Jekulic, Senior Editor of the Epoch Times
and host of the show American Thought Leaders,
who will help us explore the Iran conflict and
the China connection. Jan's career has spanned
academia, international human rights work, and
for the past two decades, media. I'll share the
interview with you in just a bit. However, first
I must address the current events specific to
the U .S.-Iran conflict. Because of logistics,
it's necessary for me to record this podcast
and schedule it to post at 4 a .m. on Wednesdays.
So I'm recording this on Tuesday, April 7th,
as late in the day as I possibly can to hopefully
be able to address some of what occurs in Iran
after 8 o 'clock p .m. Eastern Time. My goal
is not to be a reporter of world news. Rather,
it is to help us make sense out of what occurs
in the world from God's point of view. Certainly,
there will be much more for me to bring you about
the US -Iran conflict next week. I especially
like the comments from Dutch Sheets from his
April 7th Give Him 15 Daily Devotional, part
of which I want you to hear now. and his military
leaders. The evil regime in Iran has been a cancer
to the people of Iran, the Middle East, and other
portions of the world. Allowing the leading sponsor
of terrorism throughout the world with stated
objectives of annihilating the U .S. and Israel
to possess nuclear weapons would have been insane,
if not suicidal. Many of our previous presidents
have stated that this must not happen, but kicked
the can down the road to the next commander in
chief while the evil regime kept inching closer
and closer. President Trump decided to take action
and do so in a way that keeps them from rebuilding
their nuclear and terrorist ambitions anytime
soon. And if regime change occurs in the process,
great. Our military, along with Israel's, has
achieved great success in this endeavor, while
trying to leave intact as much infrastructure
as possible for future Iranians. Two considerations
are now critical in the decision -making process.
One, the Strait of Hormuz is now a complicating
factor. How far do we go? to eliminate Iran's
control over it, choking off oil flow to many
nations, since our annihilation of Iran's military
has been largely accomplished. Trump doesn't
want to get bogged down long term, and he wants
other nations, especially those that need the
oil, to step up and help deal with this evil
regime. At this point, many of them are saying
no, signaling that they want Americans to continue
footing the bill to protect the world, as we've
been doing since World War II. Secondly, how
far do we go to take out the evil regime? positioning
the Iranian people to rise up and establish a
sane government. The stated goals were to destroy
Iran's air force, navy, missile and nuclear capabilities,
with the hope that this would also cause regime
change. Most of this has been accomplished. Iran
obviously still has some missiles and launchers.
But how much more should we do beyond simply
finishing off the military? How far should we
go to destroy the evil, murderous regime itself?
In essence, these two questions, and others I
may not be considering, essentially translate
to, how do we finish this war? President Trump
and his team will need to make very wise decisions
in the coming days. These decisions will impact
not only the lives of millions of people, but
the spiritual harvest in the Middle East. We
can help generate the right decisions through
our prayers. We can. I suspect you have been
praying, but we cannot pray too much, especially
given the escalation of events the Iranian regime
is bringing upon themselves and all the innocent
people of Iran. As Dutch said, many presidents
have recognized Iran and their nuclear ambitions
and intentions of annihilating Israel is only
the beginning of their plans. Iran has been the
bully of the Middle East for decades and recently
sent missiles to their neighboring Arab nations
in a display of strength and power over them.
We see what Iran is doing to the nations of the
world with the Strait of Hormuz. Anyone who thinks
the evil intentions of the present Iranian government
is limited to Israel and the United States, leaving
all other nations safe, completely deceived.
Again, today as I'm recording is April 7th, the
day President Trump gave to Iran as a deadline
to agree to acceptable terms or he will order
destruction to bridges and power facilities.
And even faced with this reality for themselves,
the Iranian people are encouraging the United
States to do whatever it takes for their liberation.
While there are at least 15 points to the agreement
President Trump will accept, the two main points
are opening the Strait of Hormuz and no nuclear
capabilities. Both points having the greatest
benefits for many other countries and not that
of the United States. In the midst of the Iranian
War, One of the most uplifting news reports came
for the whole world to rejoice over with the
rescue of the second pilot who had ejected from
the U .S. F -15 plane on Friday, April 4, 2026.
I listened to the White House press conference
of April 6 and learned many of the incredible
details of the rescue mission. The second pilot,
identified so far as Dude 44 Bravo, was seriously
injured, and with his serious injuries and bleeding,
he was still able to climb to higher terrain
while deep within enemy territory, when he finally
felt safe enough to signal the U .S. rescue team.
And do you know what he communicated to them?
The exact words he used to confirm his location
to be rescued were, God is good. His first words
were praise to God. Are you tracking with all
that happened? First he had to eject from the
aircraft on Good Friday He spent Friday night
all day Saturday and that night deep within enemy
territory While Iran had issued a bounty for
anyone who found the US pilot meaning there was
a thousands of men searching for him Yet he managed
to move as far away from his landing site as
possible to higher terrain where he transmits
his message to the rescue team, God is good.
Early Easter Sunday morning, when he assessed
he was safe and in a place where he could be
retrieved, he gave all praise to God. I mean,
I had tears in my eyes welling up that he was
found and that it was on resurrection Sunday
morning. By all means, God is good. But here's
more I want you to understand. As I've shared,
the spring holy days of the Jewish calendar and
all that is taking place in Iran, which was ancient
Persia, actually has deep spiritual hope. The
time from Purim, which was March 2nd and 3rd,
Passover, Exodus, which is April 1 through 9,
and Easter, which was April 5, all occur in the
Hebrew month of Nisan, which is the first month
on the Hebrew spiritual calendar that has always
been considered the month of miracles. Add to
this we are in the Hebrew year 5786 with the
decade of the 80 depicted by our mouth and the
specific year 6 being the number of man represented
by the Hebrew letter Vav. The Vav is a picture
of a hook, such as held the curtains in the temple
separating the Holy Place from the Holy of Holy
Place. And recall the day of Christ's resurrection.
The thick heavy curtains were torn in two from
top to bottom, expressing that our direct access
to God is now available because of Jesus Christ.
This year of 5786 is considered a year when God
comes down from heaven to earth. when we can
expect divine intervention. I encourage you to
use your mouths to pray, decree, and declare
the plans of God to unfold and expect many miracles
from now and I believe up through Pentecost,
which is May 24, 2026. I believe we have every
reason to continue in prayer to God and expect
the best possible outcomes concerning events
in Iran as never before. We know when we pray,
consistent with God's will, our prayers are answered
in all the authority and power of Jesus Christ.
The words of human rights activist Goldie Gamari
help us have proper perspective. When speaking
for the Iranians, she stated, the Iranian people
do not view recent conflicts as war, but as liberation.
This is the same sentiment that was given by
one of the prophets I follow expressing God's
heart saying you see this as war. I see this
as liberation. Let a proper perspective of the
essential importance of restraining evil guide
you in your prayers. Now I want to share with
you part one of my three -part interview with
Jan Jekielek. Jan is a journalist, filmmaker,
and interviewer known for his in -depth conversations
on politics, culture, and global affairs. He's
a senior editor at the Epoch Times and host of
American Thought Leaders, a long -form interview
podcast and TV show. Born in Canada to Polish
immigrants, Jekielek studied evolutionary biology
at the University of Alberta before transitioning
into human rights advocacy. and later journalism.
He is also a documentary filmmaker. His repertoire
includes the Holocaust documentary Finding Many.
Yan's work has uncovered the darkest realities
of China's regime and its global influence strategies,
revealing a world few truly understand. To help
us understand more about Iran and China's connection
to what's going on in the world today, here's
part one of my interview. Jan, I am so honored
and very much privileged to have you on my program.
Thank you so very much for being my guest. I'm
so thrilled to be here, excited to see what comes
of it. Well, I know that you are very well -versed.
There's just so much that you have done with
your body of work. And so I want to forewarn
you that I plan on keeping you for a while. But
I have lots of questions, and I would like to
start with what's probably top of everybody's
mind right now, and that's what's going on in
Iran, involving, of course, the United States
and Israel and a lot of other nations at this
point. And part of why I think it's of concern
to people is because we're not getting information
through the media, certainly not through mainstream
media. President Trump is repeatedly saying that
there's been talks and that Iran has actually
asked for a ceasefire. Then representatives from
Iran are saying that there's never been any talks
or negotiations whatsoever. Can you shed any
light on this? Absolutely. I think it's a very
interesting situation when it comes to the information
war is thick. This is where we live in this time,
where in a sense, some of the most powerful weapons
that are deployed are the information weapons.
Because, as is the case in wartime, in many cases,
you can't share all information because that
would reveal the strategy and so on and so forth.
The one thing that I do know is that President
Trump has been unusually—let me put it this way—the
things that he has said he would like to accomplish—
in his historically, in his campaigning, and
in his presidency, are things that he has actually
tried to accomplish and do. So he strikes me
as being very consequential in this way. I mean,
I mean this in stark contrast to frankly, in
a bipartisan way, most politicians. So it's actually
a rare trait. But some of it, of course, is strategic.
For example, when I look at the decision making
about going after Iran, and Venezuela for that
matter, I see a much larger geopolitical play
in addition to what's actually happening there.
One of the things that I write about in my book
in Kill to Order is not just about this forced
organ harvesting industry, It's also about how
the Chinese Communist Party instrumentalizes
absolutely everything, not just human bodies,
which is the case in here, but also our goodwill
so -called allies like Iran. Iran was the linchpin.
It's the centerpiece of their Middle East strategy.
They funded it massively to the tune of 90 %
of oil sales through this shadow fleet, of course,
bypassing embargo. China was paying for was bringing
in. They used it as a tool to keep America's
gaze away from China, away from all of the really
horrible, abhorrent behavior that communist China
was up to over the years and keep a destabilized
region in the Middle East with the non -state
actors like Hezbollah and Hamas. and Iran screaming
death to America and everything else. Probably
its most useful, in a sense, sort of instrumentalization
of Iran for China was that. I see the president
is in this situation now where he wants to finish
this quickly. He says that Iran has been decimated.
I don't see a reason to think that he would not
be truthful about this given he's generally pretty
truthful about things like of this nature, right?
And certainly there is, you know, sort of reporting
that speaks to that. That's not the only reporting.
There's all, like I said, the information war
is thick, right? My inclination is to believe
that, let's call it the bounds of what's really
happening are close to what the president says
based on, you know, his historical record. Well,
I would agree with that also because there hasn't
been anything that's come out of the representations
of Iran for all of my lifetime that has ever
been actually true. Well, no, exactly. That's
that's the funniest part of it, right? Like literally,
it's like, so this is it's important to remember
this, this is this is a feature of communist
China. And it's a feature of frankly, any regime.
that these Islamist regimes, they don't really
believe in they need to be truthful with anybody.
In fact, the information is more of a tool in
a similar way to the way the Chinese Communist
Party does it. You really have to understand
it as this is what they want you to believe,
but whether or not it's true is a secondary question.
It might be true or it might not be true, we
just don't know. But truth has no bearing on
what they say. Well, I recently spoke to my audience
with my last podcast, openly contemplating what
is really going on and wondering who President
Trump is actually talking to, especially since
there's been so much made of needing a new regime,
which President Trump has said he wants the Iranian
people to do themselves. So at first I was concerned,
well, who is he talking to? And would the person
he's talking to be supported by the Iranian people?
And then I got to thinking that maybe more important
than who he's talking to is that whatever is
agreed to would be supported by the Iranian people.
Well, both need to be true, I think. And it's
a very real question. First of all, this is kind
of the question of whether the regime should
stay as an 80 -20 issue for the Iranian people,
the best information that we have. They don't
like the regime. And why? Because it treats the
people in the most horrible fashion imaginable,
right? I mean, there's been 30 to 40 ,000 people
killed by our best estimates in the last not
too long period of time. Basically, people who
are standing up to the regime just get put down,
right? And this is the mentality. So it's not
surprising that the people in general don't like
a regime, which really doesn't value their own
lives, right? This is another reason, the similar
reason why the Chinese Communist Party, as much
as they might be brainwashed into believing it's
greater than it is and it's all powerful and
all that kind of stuff, when push comes to shove,
they don't want to have a regime that can treat
their own lives with contempt. Nobody wants that,
right? Because the moment that you get on the
wrong side of it, that's it, right? So I think
it's a question of who would have the confidence,
right? of the Iranian people. I think that to
me, it seems like the son of the Shah, right,
with who they call the crown prince of Iran,
Reza Pahlavi, I don't know how, it's hard to
know exactly how much support he has within Iran.
He has considerable support in Iran. And certainly
outside of Iran, he has probably the most support
in the diaspora of any leader. The other thing
is that he promises to be a transitional leader,
right? And this is always a big question, because
not everyone is like George Washington, where
he kind of gives up his commission. I always
get my shivers run up my spine whenever I see
that in the Capitol, that incredible painting
of him resigning his commission. But that, unfortunately,
is rare. Usually people promise. And then when
push comes to shove, they say, ah, I'm going
to stay in power, right? You know, the people
that know him, I've met him, I've spoken with
him, seems like a good, decent, honorable man.
Now, is that 100 %? I can't say. But I do know
other people that I trust who believe that he
wants to facilitate a legitimate democratic transition.
The other part is that the Iranian people actually
do have a history of movement towards liberalism,
have an interest in that. This isn't like a situation
where in you know, many adjoining countries,
right? It's actually very hard to imagine a liberal
democratic society in the sense I'm talking about
rule of law and enshrining personal freedoms,
you know, First Amendment, things like that.
many of those countries, you can't really imagine
that. And it was kind of a pipe dream to try
to be creating that. But Iran is not a country
like that. In fact, in Iran, that of course,
it'll be a process. They're not they're not going
to jump into, you know, like a, you know, pure
democracy like Taiwan has right now, which they're
so proud of instantly, I don't think. But but
they're on that road. And they certainly have
seen what the opposite looks like. And they don't
like it. Absolutely. Now. We talked about the
disinformation, and you brought China in right
away, and I definitely want to talk to you about
this China connection. But for the point of clarity,
are you saying that the disinformation is largely
because of the CCP's involvement with Iran? I
think Iran has its own massive tools of information
warfare, which it's been deploying for ages.
on behalf of Hamas, Hezbollah, again, a whole
bunch of these non -state actors. I think it's
been using the Palestinian people in the most
horrible way, right? Kind of as a tool to foment
unrest in the region. And so there's a whole
big discussion to be had about that. But so,
and just, again, it's very hard to see what's
true. when a whole lot of the information out
there is designed to misdirect, designed to create
confusion, designed, well, also to lie, of course.
Now, however, the Chinese Communist Party is
the world leader at this and the most expert.
I mean, like, think about it, right? For 40 years,
maybe not. Yeah, definitely 40 years, at least,
we bought into this whole argument that China
was liberalizing. This was fueled by Henry Kissinger
under the Kissinger Doctrine, that if we put
enough cash into communist China, it's going
to liberalize. In fact, it's almost becoming
democratic now. I remember in the 2000s, it was
really crazy. I started working on China human
rights in that time, and I already knew that
they were killing people for refusing to give
up their faith. at scale. They were killing people
for refusing to give up their faith at scale.
What does that tell you? Well, there's a reason
in America. The First Amendment is the First
Amendment and the Bill of Rights. It's our fundamental
protection from government. Our right to speak,
these rights come from God. We have them. They're
inalienable. The right to speech. the right to
assembly, the right to conscience, faith. The
reason it's the First Amendment is because that
is our most core basic right in my understanding.
If you're literally killing people for exercising
that right, the most basic right. You can take
away everything else. There's no way you're liberalizing.
It's an acid test. There's no chance you can
be liberalizing if you're trying to control people's
thoughts, to the point of killing them if they
have the wrong ones. I knew they're not liberalizing,
but everyone believed it. This was a 95 -5 issue
right then, back in the day. Republican, Democrat,
up, down, it was incredibly convincing. Many
people would look at me like I'm a bit crazy
and I'm like, but this just doesn't make any
sense. They're literally not liberalizing, just
because they tell you they are, they're liars.
But that was one of these massive narratives.
Another one was that we're going to create this
massive consumer market in China, which is how
they leveraged our greed against us, the instrumentalized
our greed against us. But they've been so good
at this, what they call themselves, information
warfare, media warfare. Yeah. Well, I've got
two questions remaining more particular to Iran,
and then I definitely want to move all the way
into China. But if you could help me and my listeners
understand why the geopolitical context of the
Iran War is so important. Well, it's sort of
hidden in the subtitle of my book, or not so
hidden, but because the Chinese Communist Party
is America's greatest adversary. It views America
as its greatest adversary and its biggest obstacle
to absolute power. What the Chinese Communist
Party wants the most is guaranteed survival and
guaranteed supremacy. And anytime there is a
very successful, large, free society, okay with
all its warts and all with all its huge problems
by the way right this is an anathema to any communist
regime because a communist regime first of all
believes that it needs to spread itself right
one two it it understands it's illegitimate okay
it does not have the will of the people understands
this that's why communist regimes always kill
so many of their own people in the pursuit of
that supremacy And, you know, whenever this is
in a smaller way, this is why Taiwan is such
a threat to China, because it's it shows that
the Chinese people can do incredibly well as
free people, which is kind of goes against another
one of their big pieces of propaganda, which
is that the Chinese people need the heavy boot
of the Communist Party in order to to be successful.
Otherwise, it'll be chaos. You know, that's that's
their propaganda. I think it's the exactly opposite
is the reality, but. So the reason China views
America as its enemy and it's designed its entire
military under the Communist Party to be able
to fight America, right? It's basically like,
and it's created this whole Belt and Road Initiative
and sort of trying to co -opt all these nations
across the world. I forget how many are part
of the Belt and Road Initiative, but a huge number,
right? in all sorts of different ways, through
putting in their surveillance telecom, Huawei,
and surveillance drones, DJI, and all these different
pieces of the surveillance state, which, by the
way, they still have complete control over, even
though the dictator in the country they're working
with is thrilled to have this great tech to control
the population with. Guess who has the ultimate
control? And so the geopolitical context, now
I'm going to answer your question directly, is
that China, I mean, this sounds kind of ha -ha,
but it wants to rule the world. And it doesn't
mean it wants to kill everybody. It doesn't want
to harm people. It wants compliant, vassal states
with no impediment to its survival and supremacy.
And it's actually gone a long way. It's co -opted
many multilateral institutions like the UN. WHO.
I mean, what a disaster, right? The WHO just
kind of accepted China's story on like COVID,
you know, like just crazy things. Like you can't,
why would you take anything the Chinese Communist
Party ever said at face value? That is crazy,
right? Because again, because it's that what
they say has nothing to do with reality. It's
a messaging exercise for strategic purpose. It's
not. So There's the multilateral institutions
and it's co -opted all sorts of countries around
the world. For example, it's helped Venezuela
in its pursuit. I want to talk about almost a
failed state because the communist government
basically stole all the riches, but in the process,
getting close to bankrupted the country and created
a transnational narco terror network in the region.
Again, very convenient for Communist China, which
kind of acts as the head don, if you will, if
you want to use the mafia analogy, right? There's
these different cartels and so forth. Well, the
Communist Party is kind of the top of the list,
right? And actually cooperates very closely with
a lot of these cartels in the same way cartels
cooperate with each other saying, look, let's
work together. I'll help you be rich. Of course,
this is an offer you can't refuse. because you
know what we do to people that don't comply,
you can either be rich or you can be dead, your
choice, right? Anyway, and this is the scenario
and they've been working, actively working to
try to basically create all these beachheads
around the world from which through which they
can basically subvert American power. or really
free power, because unfortunately, that's another
thing that a lot of the power in the free world
right now in terms of actually being able to
express power is in the US's hands and among
free societies. Europe has shown itself to be,
I don't know if feckless is the right word, but
it's really disappointing. Extremely disappointing.
Frankly, it's unclear whether they even have
the ability to project power in many ways, which
is incredibly dangerous because these dictatorships,
they have a very strong interest in projecting
power. They don't respond well to suggestions.
They need to know, you have to have the leverage
to say, look, if you hurt me, You're gonna suffer
a lot more in return your power is gonna suffer
a lot more That's the only way you can kind of
keep them in check Otherwise they they're gonna
try to project that power and gather more for
themselves. That's just what they do, right?
So thank God President Trump has the ability
to not only speak what he means But we have the
power the military power to back up the information
that he's imposing So you've said that Iran certainly
hates America China hates America. And rather
than China siding or partnering with Iran, China
is feeling the heat. They're feeling threatened
by Iran. Did I understand you correctly? No,
I probably maybe didn't say that properly. No,
I feel like there might be a sense of what you
just said, because I think Iran thought China
had its back a lot more than has been revealed
in this recent war. Again, you want to talk about
the geopolitical play, right? I think, first
of all, China and Venezuela, between them, a
third of Chinese Communist Party oil came from
those two countries. So this is a huge disruption
to their energy, right? To China's. To China's.
And again, Communist China only understands the
language of power. They're not interested in
negotiating. That's all kind of a subterfuge,
only so far as it's convenient to maintain power.
But they don't believe in win -win. They don't
believe in working together. They just believe
in finding the place they can put the knife in,
so to speak. When there's this great commentator,
and I've adopted this from him, Christopher Balding,
you can think of it like horse's head diplomacy.
If you go in and you remember Godfather, right?
The horse's head in the bed kind of thing. Well,
that's the language that CCP really does understand,
actually. And so what have we seen through these
between Iran and Venezuela? We've seen the abject
failure of Chinese defense systems, all shown
to the world, right? We've seen the US being
able to exact power incredibly consequentially.
Now, There's debate about this when it comes
to Iran, and there are questions, right? If the
president can finish this war quickly, as has
been the plan and as he says he's going to do,
that will be a resounding, let's call it a success,
and it will show the US can do these kinds of
operations the way that they're planned, largely,
of course, and with incredible effectiveness.
Now, a huge problem would be is if what China
and Russia and these other dictatorship -type
states would be interested in is seeing this
war continue as long as possible, keep the Americas
embroiled, keep America's gaze, again, away from
China, but on Iran, which has been actually the
problem, which has been their strategy all along.
That would be a big problem, I think. I imagine
that the president wants to wrap this up as quickly
as possible. There's always a lot of variables.
War is not an exact process. I know that you
saw the Houthis trying to get into things recently.
All of this just kind of requires being dealt
with. But it does seem to me, based on what I've
seen, is that the idea of degrading Iran's ability
to wage war that a lot of these you know there's
that manifests in different ways degrading the
nuclear program degrading the ballistic missile
uh you know arsenal and program um there's there's
multiple elements but it seems like that is being
achieved uh and you know and a whole lot of problems
associated with that so i i don't know i i if
i was gonna guess and i'm not a military strategist
But again, I'm inclined to believe what the president
has been saying. As we're filming in a few hours,
it's going to be 9 p .m. We're going to get an
update. I have no idea what that is. We'll find
out. But I'm inclined to believe that the president
is being truthful and consequential with both
his strategies and What he says has been accomplished
or not because he's not like I've just never
seen him Say something's been accomplished and
it hasn't been for example Sometimes it can be
a little he can you know make things a bit bigger
than they really are. We know that right but
Unlike again a lot of other politicians whatever
stripes. I think I think he's shown himself to
be to try to keep the promises that he makes,
basically. And I think that's one of the reasons
the people that vote for him like him, because
they know that he's gonna do the thing he said
as opposed to something else. Yan mentioned his
book titled, Killed to Order, China's Organ Harvesting
Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest
Adversary. We'll discuss more about his book
in parts two and three, but I want you to know
I have the details for you to learn more and
to purchase his best -selling book in my show
notes. His book can be ordered online using my
Amazon link. Yan explained, beyond the war on
the ground, the information war is thick. China
has been helping to fund Iran, and because of
China's reliance on getting oil and more from
Iran, this present war is causing China some
serious losses and instability. In the past,
China enjoyed the instability in the Middle East,
specifically Iraq and Afghanistan, but Iran is
a different story for China. Yan explained the
China Communist Party views the United States
as its greatest obstacle for China to gain absolute
power. And I'll add, as we've been learning from
Promethean action, with the United States no
longer being a proxy of the British Empire, the
threat from the United States for China is even
greater. Here is where I want to add to what
Yan said about the geopolitical context of the
Iran War and how incredibly important it is.
Iran holds high geopolitical value for China.
Its location, linking East and West, has made
it an important node in the Beijing Belt and
Road Initiative. This foreign policy platform
presents itself as a global infrastructure development
program. In an article titled Why a Waning Iranian
Regime is a Major Setback for China, we are told,
quote, Iran is key in Beijing's efforts to exert
influence in the Middle East, circumvent the
United States sanctions, and counter the dollar
system, end quote. It's a great article for background,
but specific for today's focus, I'll share, quote,
although China buys the majority of Iranian oil,
Purchases from Iran make up about 13 percent
of China's total oil imports. Without Iran, China
can source oil elsewhere, albeit not at the current
deep discount Iran offers to circumvent U .S.
sanctions. However, if the Iranian regime emerges
from the current crisis more aligned with the
United States, its reliance on sanctions -driven
economic arrangements may diminish. Should Tehran
no longer need to sell the bulk of its oil to
China, Beijing would lose a key lever of influence
in the Middle East, according to China expert
Alexander Liao. In his view, the secularization
of Iran changes a long -standing Middle Eastern
structure underpinned by fear, that is, fear
of the great bully of the Middle East, which
is Iran. Liao stated, quote, Why do Gulf Arab
states still anchor their security in the United
States while hedging with China and Russia? One
critical reason is their inability to rule out
abrupt and destabilizing actions by Iran, when
Iran is no longer a theocratic system, that uncertainty
will decrease. Liao described the pact as an
institutional channel for military and technological
exchanges to circumvent United States sanctions
and counter the dollar system. If this channel
is severed, he says, that means a major setback
to China on a strategic level. According to Liao,
a central strategy of the Chinese regime has
been to link energy, currency, and geopolitics
to advance a yuan -based commodities trade system,
with the belt and road serving as a primary vehicle
for this effort. He added that the Chinese Communist
Party views such a platform as critical to advancing
its de -dollarization agenda and challenging
United States primacy. The Atlantic Council,
a Washington -based think tank, reported that
Iran, Russia and China have created an alternative
market of sanctioned oil wherein payments are
denominated in Chinese currency. Iran's oil trade
is estimated about $40 billion annually in recent
years, according to the U .S. Energy Information
Administration. This estimate does not factor
in price discounts China has received from Iran.
Settling energy trade in Chinese yuan is also
contingent on Iran's anti -western posture. If
that changes, Liao said, settlement in yuan would
cease to be beneficial and instead become a burden,
given that the Chinese currency is not freely
tradable." Now this article does not take into
consideration the many actions of President Trump's
economic policies that have adversely impacted
the BRICS nations and their intentions while
restoring America as a sovereign nation and the
US dollar status as the global reserve currency.
I plan to have Dr. Scott Young back on my program
soon to give us an update about global economics.
Another thing to consider is should the United
States establish friendly relations with a new
Iran regime, what used to be a lever of instability
would now become a lever of stability. This would
make the Middle East more stable, bringing great
benefit to Israel and the other Middle Eastern
countries. If Iran can come back as a strong
economy, it won't need China anymore. Now, I
want to share the prophecy God spoke through
Julie Green on March 28th that Julie posted on
April 1st, 2026. will be in your news for a significant
reason. The Mediterranean Sea will continue to
be in your news. Military movements are taking
place all over the Middle East to take out these
rogue regimes against Israel and the United States.
You'll continue to hear about warships and submarines
making moves to stop your enemies from taking
their next moves to attack my nations. The Red
Sea will be in your news for an unprecedented
reason. When you see this, remember that a Red
Sea moment is coming to the land of my eagle.
The Arabian Sea will be in your news for a shocking
reason. Biblical signs are happening everywhere
to show you, my children, that I am still the
Great I Am that's in the Bible, and I am judging
the enemies who are against me. The Suez Canal
will be in your news for a surprising reason.
The Gulf of Oman will be in your news for a significant
reason. A smoking gun will soon come out proving
China helped other nations across the world using
their technology to gang up against the United
States to steal elections in any way they could.
Proof will come out in shocking ways of all the
proof that Obama and the Biden regime thought
they covered their tracks regarding how they
got Chinese fake paper ballots into the United
States. All will come out in explosive ways.
All the spies that have been embedded in your
government will all be evicted. Every politician
who is working closely with China and helped
them breach the servers for their electronic
machines and every other way China stole your
elections with the deep state's help will all
be exposed. China will soon fall and their economy
gutted. Their president forcibly removed. President
Xi will be judged like I have judged pharaohs
against my people. Italy, oh Italy, how you have
worked with China and the deep state to interfere
with the United States elections. Drastic measures
will be taken against those in Italy that are
against my nation. Shocking proof that came out
right after the 2020 election that was buried
by the Biden regime. This proof will come out
again and show how the Biden, Obama, and the
Deep State gave Italy what they needed to breach
that election. It was all hands on deck to fight
against my David coming back. They all knew he
would destroy their governments and their great
reset. No matter who or what they used to stop
him, it is failing. More leaders of nations will
be removed in unprecedented ways. My David has
what he needs to take out every government against
this country. More arrests are coming. More governments
will fall. More military strikes will take place
across my nations to stop the One World Government
from completing their mission to wipe out the
United States and Israel. They will never see
that take place because I am the protector of
both nations and nothing they do will get past
me." There is so much going on in our world,
but one thing we must do is to remain focused
on what God says. And one of the things he's
often repeated is, things are not as they appear.
Don't be swayed by what mainstream media reports.
In fact, a good rule of thumb is to know to focus
on the opposite of whatever they claim. Mainstream
media is controlled by the globalist deep state.
Whatever and whomever they claim are the problems
and bad guys, it's intended to sway us away from
the truth. Next week, I'm thrilled to bring you
part two of my interview with Jan Jokolic so
we can gain more truthful understanding about
what the war in Iran and the Chinese connection
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