The Russian connection with Iran

This article in the Daily Star (Lebanon) is interesting in terms of the Russian/Iranian connection.

Thought.... How much and what does Russia and Putin have to gain by the US being kept rather busy in the middle east? Further..... what could and would they do about it?

My guess is they stand quite a lot to gain, and can have a very large effect on the middle east situation with a very small outlay. Even the introduction of one outdated weapon system reaching the end of it's useful life would completely change the situation.


The author of the Star article seems to have some standing.
Robert Freedman info:

Dr. Robert Freedman is Professor of Political Science at Baltimore
Hebrew University, visiting Professor of Political Science at Johns
Hopkins University and the author of numerous books on Russian policy
towards the Middle East, including "Soviet Policy Toward the Middle
East Since 1970" and "Moscow and the Middle East: Soviet Policy Since
the Invasion of Afghanistan."

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