Even as countries turn on Iran following its attack on Israel, the Islamic nation has found friendship in another nation spurned by the West: Russia.
From Ynet News. While many Western leaders rushed to issue statements supporting Israel and condemning Iran’s unprecedented attack, Russia took the opposite approach, justifying the massive attack on several occasions. President Vladimir Putin remained silent on the attack, but Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, justified the Iranian action, criticized Israel and used the entire issue to accuse Western countries of “bias.”
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Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, harshly attacked Israel’s ambassador in Moscow, Simona Halperin, for demanding Russia condemn the Iranian attack on Israel. In recent days, Russia’s state media outlets have expressed strong criticism against Israel and expressed support for Iran. …
Intelligence sources in the West currently describe Moscow-Tehran relations as a deepening strategic partnership. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a major factor contributing to the consolidation of this partnership, due to Russia’s reliance on Iranian military assistance in the early months of the war. …
Since then, this cooperation has deepened into other areas, and now, amid escalating tensions between Iran and Israel, it is gaining special importance in the Israeli context. The Iranians themselves have learned much and gleaned lessons from the way the Russians operated Iranian equipment across Ukraine, seemingly enhancing their capabilities. Additionally, Iran is expected to provide Russia with short- and medium-range surface-to-surface missiles. …
In this context, the deepening military cooperation between Moscow and Tehran reveals additional significant aspects from the Israeli perspective. Russia is expected to soon provide Iran with advanced fighter jets of the SU-35 model, which will become the most modern in the Iranian Air Force’s aging fleet, along with, likely, advanced air defense technologies to help Iran defend against any Israeli aerial attacks. …
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(Excerpt from Ynet News. Photo Credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia)