Tehran’s supply of drones to Moscow deepens a collaboration between two unlikely allies
Vladimir Putin with the commander-in-chief of the Russian navy, Nikolai Yevmenov, and Gen Aleksandr Dvornikov.Vladimir Putin with the commander-in-chief of the Russian navy, Nikolai Yevmenov, and Gen Aleksandr Dvornikov.When a Russian plane arrived in Iran with €140m in cash and a booty of captured western weapons, an exchange for Iranian drones, it marked a new phase in a seven-year alliance between two unlikely bedfellows.
At the height of Bashar al-Assad’s scramble to save Syria from forces who had battered his army to the point of defeat, the Iranian generalflew to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin. There he rolled out maps in front of the Russian leader and spelled out Assad’s travails. The visit laid the ground for Russia’s 2015 intervention, and created a pact between two countries with little in common except a shared desire to shred the established order and undermine the west.
Sky News, which first reported the Russian cash delivery this week, said its sources suggested more Iranian drones were likely to be delivered, deepening a collaboration between the two states and exposing civilian targets to more devastation before winter.
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