News about Iran • Russia

🇷🇺🇦🇪📞 President of Russia Vladimir #Putin and @MohamedBinZayed spoke over the phone. Both sides expressed deep concern over the ongoing escalation of the conflict between Iran and Israel. t.me/MFARussia/25349 #RussiaUAE pic.x.com/qeqMCUDere

And now really think about what the situation with the defeat of the Iranian regime and its nuclear weapons could have looked like, if its official ally, Russia, were not currently deeply bogged down in a grueling war in Ukraine. This especially applies to air defense systems,

Interestingly, Russia in 2022 quite clearly intended to crush Ukraine in much the same way Israel is now striking in Iran — swiftly and decisively. But it made catastrophic mistakes, proved fundamentally incapable of executing such an operation, and disastrously underestimated

Why Isn’t #Russia Defending #Iran? Russia is not happy about Iran’s humiliation at the hands of Israel, a US ally. But when it comes to shaping events far from its borders, Russia is only so able. My essay in @TheAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/russia-iran-israel-defense/683214/