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The increasing ties between Russia and Iran | DW News

  • October 11, 2024



The increasing ties between Russia and Iran | DW News

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has met with his Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian for the first time. The two leaders held face-to-face talks at a regional summit in Turkmenistan, where they joined a number of heads of state from other Central Asian and Arab states.

The Kremlin says the Russian and Iranian presidents discussed mutual relations as well as the situation in the Middle East. The meeting comes amid soaring tensions in the region, with Israel engaged in a war with the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. It’s the first time Putin has met the Iranian president after Pezeshkian’s predecessor Ibrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash in May.

Ties between Russia and Iran have strengthened since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, with Tehran widely believed to be supplying Moscow with weapons. DW’s Natalia Smolentceva reports on the Russian-Iranian relationship.

For more on the story, we talk to DW Correspondent Natalia Smolentceva. She joins us from Riga, where DW moved its Moscow bureau when we were banned from reporting from inside Russia.

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22 comments

  1. these, the so called "pundits", keep saying Russia and Iran, the two countries that do not really like each other, are getting together due to convenience, yet they forget that Iranians and Russians have a lot of cultural commonalities, and have shared long history. it's only natural they get together now, to fend off the common enemies.

  2. In the future, Russia/Iran won’t be our enemies and they’ll have their own Eurasian Union along with the Central Asian states. But they need to be dissuaded from expanding westward. The current conflict is Russia testing the EU and Iran testing Israel. If they find that the EU is a solid wall and there’s no chance to expand influence in the eastern Mediterranean either, then they’ll eventually give up on their current plans, and Russia will team up with Iran to focus on Central Asia and Azerbaijan. Either that, or they’ll weaken themselves so much on pointlessly fighting the West for too long and Turkey will take advantage of the power vacuum in Azerbaijan and Central Asia and then Russia/Iran will be stuck struggling against the Turkic Union wedged between them (and Turkey will try to build a new Ottoman Empire, first in the Middle East, then the Balkans, which will mean fighting Israel, the Arabs, and the EU).

  4. "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of Me, saith the LORD."
    Isaiah 54:17! ✝️❤️✝️❤️✝️

  5. Even he won't direct intervene, his Putinism ideology will continue on its own. Expand bases in Syria and Iran to defend Middle East will be its first step to slowly grow influence.

  12. Russia (and China) will not let Iran fall prey to western machiavelism.
    If it comes to a direct military confrontation Israel will getting bled dry
    as the Ukraine is getting bled dry – further substantional weakening the
    western military potential and their posibility to project power.
    I mean you dont even have to be smart to deduct what will happen in the
    long term. "They" have the numbers,the resources and the production capacity
    on their side – and they are still growing.

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