Putin, Pezeshkian sign strategic Russia-Iran partnership agreement in Moscow ・Ukraine strikes Russian S-400 radar equipment in Belgorod Oblast, military claims ・Biden administration secretly funded Ukraine's drone industry,

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance From Syria to Ukraine.

Iran and Russia have grown closer since the start of the Ukraine war as the two countries face international sanctions.

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Moscow and Tehran have long ties but their cooperation only intensified after the outbreak of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022. Iran has provided Russia with thousands of Shahed ...

Russia and Iran signed a mutual defense and security cooperation pact on Jan. 17 — just days before President Trump’s inauguration. Both nations are primary opponents of the U.S., demonstrated by Russia’s war against Ukraine and Iran’s attempts to assassinate Trump,