Iran wins SCO backing against US strikes: will it be enough?

As the US resumes strikes on Iran to force an end to the six-month-old war, Tehran is turning to multilateral groupings like the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and Brics for political and diplomatic cover. At the SCO summit in Bishkek on Tuesday, world leaders made veiled references to the instability in the Middle East, without naming the United States directly, in apparent tacit backing for Iran. The Bishkek Declaration closing the summit, meanwhile, explicitly condemned the…