Iran War Divides Shanghai Cooperation Organization Autocrats
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) foreign ministers are meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, amid growing internal divisions caused by the Israeli-American war in Iran and the battle for the Strait of Hormuz. While China, Russia, and Iran officially promote cooperation against the West, the conflict has exposed divergent interests. China prioritizes economic stability and wants the war to end quickly to protect its oil imports, a third of which transit the Strait of Hormuz. Russia has not provided military support to Iran despite its SCO membership. India, a SCO member, has not condemned US attacks due to its complex relationship with Washington, but has lost 27% of its oil imports and watches warily as rival Pakistan positions itself as a mediator. The SCO officially supports Iran's territorial integrity, but no military backing has materialized.
Editorial responsibility
- No named human review is recorded for this page.
- Reports are grouped by semantic similarity and deterministic rules. Language models may assist titles, summaries, translation and cross-source analysis; the page itself is projected from evidence records.
- Current automated evidence projection