Astute!
We only thought that the Iran money was flowing between Russia and China, not London.
This meshes with the lay of the land as I’ve heard it explained by several geopolitical pundits.
They often describe the conflict as a battle of two “giants”, in terms of their capital holding, political sway and access to hard+soft power. Neither giant is any sort of White Knight or beneficiary of the common man; in fact both giants view us as the herd of cattle that’s part of the spoils from their high-level contention. We “little” people are left to scuttle and scurry beneath their massive limbs, and the monstrous thrusts and parries (i.e. policy proposals, political aspirations, directional shunting of the cattle) of these completely amoral and materialist titans.
Not at all a cheerful portrait, but this has been a recurring theme echoed through history. The best common man can hope for is the rare moment in time where one giant in the fray is the archetypal “benevolent overlord”/“good king”, perhaps a Marcus Aurelius or Henry Ford figure, wielding far too much power, not necessarily a saintly and illuminated character, but at least possessing some modicum of compassion and care for the common men beneath their colossal corpus.
… sounds as believable as anything else out there in the aether. 
… it will either happen or not … the question is, as with everything else we are told, how will we know if it happens or not?