China is supplying Iran, India and China are buying Ruzzian oil at a marverllous discount, Ruzzia transfered missile tech to Iran (even experts in nuclear weapons went into Iran). China passed both nuclear and missile technology to North Korea as the perfect "proxy" to use nukes against Japan or even others without getting officially involved...
Any regime that feels threatened by the US simply groups together. Except perhaps India and - to a point China = that simply take advantage of the stupidity of others (e.g. Putin is stupid enough to get his oil sanctioned, we will buy it at 50% discount to market).
The problem is too complex, all of that is done so as not to always revolve around the US and its allies, and no matter how to continue to follow the US there will be another war, they always make propaganda to divide, none other than the arms business must run, they get money from there. LOL
China is wild, but it takes advantage of the narrowness to maintain the stubbornness of others, this is clever, and therefore China is projected to replace the US as world leader.
Here it smells of interests to achieve their own version of sovereignty, the weak and stupid will be eaten, and today Iran has become an open stage.
Kind of yes. But one must say that Iran has made all the wrong choices - not even from a moral perspective, but from a practical one. It is very clear to absolutely anyone that Israel will not allow Iran to get a nuke and will use whatever means required to avoid it. That includes bringing the US into the war.
Another of those mistakes was to take part in favour or Ruzzia without asking for a good bunch of Ruzzian air defences and material - before the Ukraine war of course, Ruzzia now is not even serving long standing customers.