US Iran Russia: Russia is joining U.S.-Iran war? Moscow is sharing satellite imagery, drone technology with Tehran, claims report

Russia is expanding intelligence sharing and “military cooperation” with Iran, providing satellite imagery and advanced drone technology to help Tehran target US forces in the region, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, Russia’s state nuclear energy company Rosatom condemned the attack on the territory of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant on Tuesday and called for reducing tensions around the facility. “We categorically condemn what happened and call on all parties to the conflict to make every effort to reduce tensions around the Bushehr nuclear power plant,” Rosatom President Aleksei Likhachev said in a statement. he said.

In the statement, it was stated that radiation levels around the Russian-made facility were normal and there were no injuries among the personnel. According to the Tansim news agency, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said that a projectile hit the area near the power plant.

This comes after President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had rejected calls from NATO and many other allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz and had failed to rally support behind a war in Iran that he insists he is waging for the good of the world, even if he does not appreciate his own efforts.

Trump, who has pressed allies to help protect the critical waterway to ease the chokehold on the region’s oil exports, was angered by the lack of U.S. support “even though we are ‘helping’ NATO so much,” and said it was in the allies’ interest to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Trump’s angry response to allies’ refusal to join the war underlined that the conflict, now in its third week and causing repercussions across the global economy, is one that the international community expected to resolve on its own after the US leader launched the war without consultation.

Trump, who has expressed anger at traditional US allies, has emphasized that he is okay with the consolidating dynamic of the conflict falling largely on his shoulders alone, for better or worse.
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been encouraging him to do so for months, Trump increasingly suggests that the path to conflict was chosen by one man. It started based on what Trump described as “feeling” about the threat posed by Iran, and said it would end when his instinct said it was time. “We don’t really need any help,” Trump told reporters as he hosted Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin for his visit to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day.

President Trump has complained that NATO allies are relying on tens of billions of dollars in U.S. support for Ukraine to fend off Russia’s invasion, but that he has failed to return the favor to help the United States and Israel in their efforts to neutralize Iran, which has posed a threat to the Middle East and beyond for years. He added that the United States is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to strengthen European and Asian defenses.