Iran signs memorandum to join Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : As leaders meet in Uzbekistan, the eight-member regional body is poised to add Iran to its ranks.
58% : "By signing the document for full membership of the SCO, now Iran has entered a new stage of various economic, commercial, transit and energy cooperation," Hossein Amirabdollahian wrote on social media.
54% :Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongolia are observer countries, while the organisation has six "dialogue partners": Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Turkey.
52% :Iran has signed a Memorandum of Obligations to become a permanent member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a central Asian security body, the Iranian foreign minister said.
52% : Last year, the rapidly expanding SCO approved Iran's application for accession, while the government in Tehran called on members to help it form a mechanism to avert sanctions imposed by the West over its disputed nuclear programme.
28% : Months of indirect talks between Iran and US President Joe Biden's administration have hit a dead end over several obstacles to reviving the nuclear pact, under which the Iranian government agreed to curbs on its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions.
18% : Iran's economy has been hit hard since 2018, when then-US President Donald Trump unilaterally abandoned a landmark nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers, including Russia and China.

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