Australia and the UK are among the largest overseas markets for Chinese cars, and a big portion of those customers are boomers.
They love Chinese cars. If people in the "Five Eyes" —who actually hate China politically—can get over their bias, why are Iranian boomers still hold onto such deep-seated racism? Aren't Iran and China supposed to be in the same camp?
Russia is sanctioned heavily, and on paper, Chinese companies have export controls there too. Yet, the Russians figure out how to get Chinese products. Even North Korea and Russia can manage parallel imports or smuggling in this global system—why is Iran incapable of doing the same? Aren't affordable, high-quality Chinese goods exactly what Iran’s sanction-crippled economy needs? Instead of figuring out import channels themselves, Iran expects Chinese companies to risk sanctions and hurt their own interests to enter? Where does this entitlement come from?
Hoping to sell them to US allies instead??? Source? Or you mean Pakistan?