The Russo-Iranian Partnership Poses a Global Threat
A decades-old ideological alliance whose activities stretch from Latin America to Africa to Myanmar.
December 5, 2022
The Russo-Iranian Partnership Poses a Global Threat
A decades-old ideological alliance whose activities stretch from Latin America to Africa to Myanmar.
Iran’s provision of drones and military advisers to Russia has called international attention to an alliance that has been evident to those paying attention to the Middle East for at least a decade. While putative experts have tended to express doubts about the depth of Tehran-Moscow ties, citing centuries of conflict between tsarist and Persian imperial ambitions, Oved Lobel points out that these ties began with the Islamic Republic’s inception. Nor are they limited to the Middle East: Lobel identifies cooperation between the Kremlin and the mullahs as stretching from Latin America to Africa to Myanmar.
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