Tehran: The international arena is ‘at the cusp of a new order”, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday, asserting that the traditional dominance of Western powers is rapidly eroding.
He cited Chinese president Xi Jinping’s vision of historic global transformations while stating that Iran’s ongoing resistance has accelerated this geopolitical shift.
“The future belongs to the Global South,” he added.
Iran’s recent “70-day resistance” against US and Israeli military and economic pressures has acted as a primary catalyst, shortening the timeline for this global paradigm shift, Ghalibaf posted on X.
“The world stands at the cusp of a new order. As President Xi said ‘The transformation unseen in a century is accelerating across the globe,’ and I emphasize that the Iranian nation’s 70-day resistance has accelerated this transformation. The future belongs to the Global South,” the Iranian leader posted.
Ghalibaf’s strategic invoking of President Xi is no coincidence. It arrives at a highly volatile moment in global diplomacy, serving as a direct response to the broader geopolitical game of being played out between Washington, Beijing, and Tehran, as reported by ANI.
His remarks directly follow a high-stakes summit in Beijing where Xi hosted US president Donald Trump. While Trump and Xi haggled over massive trade deals, tariffs, and the flashpoint issue of Taiwan, Iran watched closely.
“The whole world is watching our meeting. Currently, a transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the globe and the international situation is fluid and turbulent,” Xi said during the meeting.
“The world has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides trap and create a new paradigm of major country relations?” Xi added, while calling for greater stability and cooperation amid global uncertainty.
hrough his “Thucydides trap” remark, Xi referred to the recent conflict in West Asia between the US and Iran.
First popularised by Harvard scholar Graham T Allison, the term highlighted the intense structural tensions and increased risk of conflict that arise when an emerging power challenges the dominance of an existing global power.
The Chinese premier further highlighted the significance of ties between the two nations, noting that both countries stood to gain through cooperation and lose through confrontation.
“I always believe that our two countries have more common interests than differences. Success in one is an opportunity for the other. And a stable bilateral relationship is good for the world. China and the United States both stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation,” he stated.
Ghalibaf said the Iranian nation’s “resistance” had become “a driving force in accelerating a transformation unseen in a century”, describing it as part of a new multipolar order, Iranian state media Press TV reported.
Iran’s “resistance” had “exposed the fragility of the old US-led unipolar order and hastened its inevitable decline,” while also inspiring nations across “Latin America to Africa and Asia” seeking alternatives to “Western hegemony”, the news report stated.
“From Latin America to Africa and Asia, developing nations increasingly recognise that the era of Western hegemony, which is marked by sanctions, military adventurism and economic domination, is drawing to a close,” Press TV said in the report.
