Iran Opens Airspace to China Warplanes

The Iranians demonstrate that they're not alone -

Ankara and Beijing conducted the drills in Turkey's Central Anatolia region last month.

The war games, codenamed the Anatolian Eagle, were the first involving Turkey and China. Turkey had previously carried out Anatolian Eagle maneuvers with the US and other NATO members as well as Israel.

Turkish F-16, Chinese Su-27 and Mig-29 fighter jets took part in mock dogfights during the drills.

The maneuvers come ahead of a planned visit by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to Turkey.

Turkey and China took their first step in military cooperation in the late 1990s with joint missile production, manufacturing weapons with a 150-kilometer range, the Hurriyet daily reported on its website.

The multinational Anatolian Eagle exercise is hosted by the Turkish Air Forces and is aimed at boosting aerial cooperation and training. The exercises have been performed since June 2001.

The Real Effect
Note the inclusion of Turkey in the wargames, not unprecedented, but not exactly siding with Israel.

Seeing as how the US is howling about "fresh terror attacks" with intelligence reports that, ahem,

were not sparked any new intelligence, counter-terrorism, security and intelligence officials said.

it will be very curious to see if there are "terror attacks" before the next US election in November that can be pinned on any "regime" let alone Iran.