Russia watches on as ally Iran is pummeled
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits an exhibition at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Poklonnaya Gora in Russia, Moscow, 30 April 2025.
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Russia’s reaction to Iran’s call for help is closely watched on Monday after bombing the US nuclear facilities at the weekend – Moscow may not offer a hand.
The attacks on Iran’s nuclear areas, which President Donald Trump described as “destructive”, fought the Islamic Republic to support a few friends on the global scene. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi went to Moscow on Monday For “serious consultations” with Russian President Vladimir Putin About how to answer the attacks.
Iran helped Russia with military drones during the war in Ukraine, but analysts say that Moscow would be very little to respond.
“Iran has greatly supported Putin’s war against Ukraine with weapons and technology against Ukraine. The trip of Moscow Abbas Araghchi may now ask him to return to Moscow.” He said.
“However, Putin probably has very little to offer beyond some words. For his ongoing aggression against Ukraine, his weapons need him.”
Russia also should also start a fine line between placing and helping the United States and keeping the United States dessert, as Donald tries to establish ties with the Russian-Fiendlier administration.
“If Putin would significantly disturb Trump to Iran, Trump could stick and apply new heavy sanctions to Russia and/or weaken Putin’s position in other ways,” said Schmieding. He said.
So far, Moscow’s response to the increasing crisisRussia called on Iran and Israel to a peaceful last negotiation to the crisis.
Win some of them, losing a little
Analysts say that the Iranian conflict could modestly strengthen Russia’s position in Ukraine, because they have potentially removed the West’s attention and potentially resources from Ukraine. Higher oil prices may mean more export income for Russia’s war -funds.
At the same time, Russia follows when another Middle East ally is weakened and in this process eroding its own base in the region. Russia has recently seen that a valuable alliance has recently been crumbled by overthrowing the regime of Bashar al -Assad in Syria, which has aroused suspicion that Moscow’s air and sea bases will come.
If Iran has been seriously destroyed, Russia continues to lose potentially profitable investments and infrastructure projects. The issue of Moscow is to measure how much to win or lose by helping or abandoning Iran.
“Moscow itself seems to be undecided what to do from a new war in the Middle East, Nik He said in the analysis.
“On the one hand, Russia has invested in various projects in Iran in the last three years, all of which can now be wasted. At the same time, Moscow hopes to benefit from Middle East instability with increasing oil prices and the decrease in interest in Ukraine.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) is shook hands with Iranian President Masoud Pesshkian (L) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan at the meetings of October 11, 2024.
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Smagin, who excluded Russia’s possibility of providing any military aid to Iran, said that the bigger problem for Moscow is a threat to all Iranian initiatives that he has actively investigated, including oil and gas projects, infrastructure and transit routes.
“A few days before the start of the Israeli operation, Iran’s Ambassador to Moscow in question Russia is the largest foreign investor in the country in 2024. The ambassador did not specify any investment volume, but Russian investments estimated The previous year is 2.76 billion dollars. Moscow has only planned to invest in an oil and gas project of $ 8 billion. “He said.
“Now the future of these projects is suspicious.”
