Washington Asked Beijing To Control Tehran (From CBS Radio)

Just last week, the State Department was calling their counterparts in China asking Beijing to use its influence with Iran to call off its attack on Israel. While the US had terrific intelligence and knew about the attack, which took place on Saturday, ahead of time, the State Department spent additional time trying to persuade China to convince Iran not to do anything. It obviously had no impact, a failure of the White House’s diplomacy strategy. The good news is that US Central Command was there to help Israel achieve a near-perfect missile defense. Regardless of what the White House thought would happen when they talked to Beijing, however, the fact still stands that China’s purchases of Iranian oil are what keeps the regime in place. Listen to the full interview here.