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In foreign policy, the priority is to favor the East over the West, neighbors over distant countries, and nations with shared interests over others."
Russia's primary focus is on securing its interests with Washington, especially regarding NATO's presence in Eastern Europe and Ukraine's potential membership,
Ahmad Vakhshiteh, a senior lecturer at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) in Moscow, told DW Tehran may benefit from this partnership, but Russia will ultimately prioritize its own strategic goals,
Iran is an important partner for us with which we are developing multifaceted co-operation,
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters The treaty ... is constructive in nature and is aimed at strengthening the capabilities of Russia, Iran, and our friends in various parts of the world,
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday Even when Iran is fighting their wars outside Iran, they are not willing… to sacrifice their soldiers, ... and when we’re talking about Iran and Russia there is a very big background of distrust from the Iranian side to Russia.”
I think this is partly intended as a message to the Trump administration that we each have options,
The Iranians certainly have some worrying capabilities, the Russians certainly have demonstrated a willingness to use worrying capabilities,
They are frightened by the Trump administration, they are frightened by Israel, they are frightened by the collapse of Assad, the collapse of Hezbollah,
That idea of having the United States not just as an adversary but as a strategic objective of all of their foreign policy has brought them together,
Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington, D.C., told CNN The nature of this agreement is different. They (Belarus and North Korea) established partnership relations (with Moscow) in a number of areas that we did not particularly touch upon,
TASS quoted the ambassador as saying A 'blow' from an unexpected direction: Iran has refused to recognize occupied Crimea and other 'disputed territories' as russian in the new Comprehensive Partnership Agreement for the next 20 years, which is set to be signed in moscow on January 17.
Xenta, a pro-Ukraine X user, wrote Per this reporting, Iran has refused to add a provision that would recognize Crimea as part of Russia to strategic cooperation agreement with Russia. Don't know if that was an issue at all but it should remind us that even sanctioned Iran doesn't play ball."
Anton Barbashin, the editorial director of the outlet Riddle Russia, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday
