Iran is convinced that there will be no new “nuclear agreement” with Western countries. At the same time, an alternative to the proposals of Europe and the United States was found in Tehran in close cooperation with Russia.
Iranian military assistance to the Kremlin would have been in any case and would not have depended on the process of negotiations between Iran and the West . About this Channel 24Sergei Danilov, deputy director of the Center for Middle East Studies, said.
Orientation towards the Kremlin
The expert noted that approximately in May the Iranian leadership has matured the opinion that there will be no “nuclear agreement” with the countries of the West.
Since then, they began their drift towards Russia. The result of Iranian assistance to Russia was irrevocable. Tehran would have gone for it anyway. Russia is a client for Iran on the one hand, and a support on the other. Through Russia, they are trying to settle their affairs. This is a mutual exchange of services: quite valuable and valuable for both sides,” the observer explained.
According to him, Tehran is cooperating with Moscow even now, when protests have begun and power has begun to stagger.
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Status of the “Nuclear Deal”
< p>The analyst said that the United States and Europe supported the idea of sanctions against Iran, despite the negotiations in Vienna.
“The Iranians themselves made several mistakes. They demanded that a clause that the Guard Corps of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC) is not a terrorist organization. They demanded that there be legally binding clauses that would no longer allow withdrawal of the agreement“, Danilov said.
He emphasized that in 2015, Iran achieved a “free hand” in the region and freedom over the missile program in exchange for a freezing of the nuclear program.
Now they also “traded” the nuclear program, intimidating the world in order to restore positions on the IRGC and, most importantly, freedom of hands in the region and in relation to the missile program. After the Americans did not agree to the “corps”, the process came to a standstill, the observer concluded.
Iran's complicity in the war against Ukraine: latest news
- Iran is handing over kamikaze drones to Russia, with which they daily attack peaceful Ukrainian cities, as well as civilian and critical infrastructure. Therefore, it is likely that Ukraine was planning to break off diplomatic relations with Iran.
- At the same time, Iran may provide Russia with ballistic missiles, as well as “something a little more complicated.” For example, a copy of the X-55 missile, but with a shorter range – up to 1,300 kilometers instead of 2,000 kilometers.
- ISW believes that Iranian instructors are now in the temporarily occupied Crimea. They are trying to teach the Russian military how to use Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that Ukraine does not want to have contacts with Iran. This is because their drones inflicted numerous destructions on civilian infrastructure and brought death and suffering to the Ukrainian people. In addition, the situation is becoming more tense due to reports that Iran will continue to supply weapons to Russia.
