The day Russia didn't show up for Iran
Russia's image as a reliable ally has suffered yet another blow as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint U.S.–Israeli strikes across Iran on Feb. 28, marking a fresh outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East.
So far, Moscow's response to the U.S.–Israeli bombardment of hundreds of targets in Iran has been limited to diplomatic support for Tehran, even as U.S. President Donald Trump has openly called for a change of regime.
The latest development highlights Iran's junior role in its partnership with unsteady Russia, while Moscow's focus on the war in Ukraine leaves it little means to rush to Tehran's aid.
https://kyivindependent.com/iran-russia-dependence-amid-us-strikes/Open linkView original on piefed.ca
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Wait. Was anyone actually expecting them to?
I mean, Iran was.
I mean, in the last 4 years they only failed Armenia, Syria, and Venezuela, so who could have predicted they wouldn't show up for Iran? /s
Russia just gave them some brand new Su-35s, and Iran has furthermore been a crucial strategic supplier to Russia in the Ukraine war (which, by the way, is where Ukraine’s support for taking out Iranian leadership comes from - you can’t expect sympathy from the country that’s you’ve systematically been helping Russia fuck over). Iran was basically the most crucial “pariah state” ally that Russia had, and they’ve been effectively swept of the board as a strategic threat and military industrial power.
They aren't showing for Cuba either.
Did they, though? What exactly did they expect from Russia beyond selling them weapons, which Russia probably did?
Iran was selling weapons to Russia, not the other way round. Russia had no capacity to export any weapons these last two years, as *emphasized by their attempts to buy back the S-400s they sold to Turkey or having to import North Korean artillery.
Perhaps the last couple of years. But even then they could share blueprints, technology and such.
hi, this was the other way round as the other poster said. Iran has/had the higher tech drones etc
Perhaps with drones, but there are so much other advanced tech when it comes to weapons, aren't there? There is also space program.
*emphasized
Thanks
Russia is depleted from Ukraine. Fighting a losing war on two fronts is a bad idea. Trump bad.
Putin could have blocked 1 hellfire missile with his face and maybe the Ayatollah would still be around (if we assume the extreme lower bound of the estimate of US missile stocks).
After Iran sent so much materiel to Russia for their genocidal invasion of Ukraine, this is the one very tiny bright spot of this catastrophe.
Russia can't even show up for Russia. I doubt Iranians thought Russia would launch nukes for them.
Complete tangent, but those two flags look amazing together.
What was Russia supposed to do for Iran that they didn't do?
TF were they supposed to do, give moral support?