Russia is calling on Iran’s “ayatollah regime” to return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that Tehran must reverse its efforts to boost nuclear enrichment and observe the terms of the accord.
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Iran will buy weapons from Russia and China and export them to terrorists
The concession wasn’t to Iran so much as to China and Russia, two great-power rivals that participated in the nuclear negotiations. In the 1990s, China and Russia sold Iran a variety of weapons systems
Russian journalist says she will never go back to Iran again
Nobody can imagine how I loved Iran, but I will never go back to the country, says a Russian journalist who was detained October 2 after arriving in Iran
Russia summons Iranian ambassador for arrested Russian journalist in Tehran
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization has detained a Russian journalist, Yulia Yuzik, her relatives disclosed on Friday, October 4
Iranian officials handing territory to Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law ratifying the controversial Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, on Tuesday, October 1. Duma, the Russian parliament, had already passed the convention on September 19
China Russia and Iran plan joint naval drill in international waters
China, Russia and Iran are planning a joint naval drill in the Sea of Oman and northern Indian Ocean “soon”, a semi-official Iranian news outlet reported on Saturday, just days after the United States blamed Iran for a drone attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities
Taliban delegation in Tehran after visit to Moscow
Members of the Taliban political office in Doha have held discussions with Iran’s foreign ministry and high-level officials in Tehran, Tasnim news agency close to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) reported on Tuesday
Turkey will host Putin and Rouhani to discuss Syrian war
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hosting his Russian and Iranian counterparts in Ankara on September 16 for their latest meeting on Syria
Iraqi militia leader wants Iranian help to buy Russian missiles
A senior leader in Iraq’s paramilitary forces has asked Iran for assistance in buying Russian missiles, reports claim
Conflicts between Iranian and Russian forces in Syria
In recent months reports have begun to emerge that despite Russia and Iran’s seeming military alliance in Syria, Russia has actually been playing an entirely different game
Russia senator wants to fight for Iran against U.S.
Speaking to Iran’s Channel 5, Deputy Speaker of Russia’s Federation Council Iliyas Umakhanov accused the United States of “hooliganism” and claimed that if armed conflict breaks out between the U.S. and Iran, he “volunteer[s] for the war
