‘Axis of evil’: China, Russia, Iran putting global security ‘at stake’

Menzies Research Centre Senior Fellow Nick Cater says China, Russia and Iran are part of an “axis of evil” putting global security “at stake” as Iranian-backed Houthi rebels ramp up their attacks in the Red Sea. The US has sanctioned an Iranian-based financier and two companies accused of funneling money to the Houthi terrorists. The Houthis flaunted their air power in an undated video which surfaced after the US announced a ten-nation task force to counter the Yemeni rebels’ continuous attacks in the Red Sea. “They’re very well equipped, of course, and assisted vastly by Iran and indirectly from China and Russia too," he told Sky News host James Macpherson. “This is the axis of evil and for Richard Marles to say that this is not our business, he said that we can’t send a warship because we need warships to deal with problems in our region – wait a minute, there is a global issue here of security at stake. “We expect and we get help from British and the French who send warships to the South China Sea to help patrol the South China Sea and just show China that there’s a united front; we have to do the same in that neck of the woods.”