Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries on Friday by signing a 20-year strategic partnership that is likely to worry the West.
The agreement is focused more on trade than military issues, but it will bring two countries with a shared desire to challenge the West closer together.
Iran has already supplied Russia with self-detonating "Shahed" drones that Moscow fires on Ukraine in nightly barrages, according to Ukrainian and Western officials. Sitting next to Putin in the Kremlin after signing the treaty, Pezeshkian called for a political settlement to end the nearly three-year conflict.
Trump's incoming envoy Keith Kellogg spoke about returning to a policy of 'maximum pressure' on Iran during an event Saturday in Paris.
Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine.
Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are crafting a wide-ranging sanctions strategy to facilitate a Russia-Ukraine diplomatic accord in the coming months while at the same time squeezing Iran and Venezuela,
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Last weekend, the president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming envoy on Ukraine, Gen. Keith Kellogg, spoke in Paris at an event of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also known as MEK (Mujahedeen-e Khalk), a Iranian exile group that seeks to overthrow the Islamic government in the country.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a broad cooperation agreement, deepening their already growing partnership.
The two countries signed 20-year cooperation pact, but despite anti-US stance there are limits to their partnership.