Several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year as the Islamic Republic has deepened its defence cooperation with Moscow, a Reuters review of travel records and employment data indicates.
The seven weapons experts were booked to travel from Moscow to Tehran aboard two flights on April 24 and September 17 last year, according to documents detailing the two group bookings as well as the passenger manifest for the second flight.
A senior Iranian defence ministry official said Russian missile experts had made multiple visits to Iranian missile production sites last year, including two underground facilities, with some of the visits taking place in September. The official, who requested anonymity to discuss security matters, didn’t identify the sites.
A Western defence official, who monitors Iran’s defence cooperation with Russia and also requested anonymity, said an unspecified number of Russian missile experts visited an Iranian missile base, about 15 km (9 miles) west of the port of Amirabad on Iran’s Caspian Sea coast, in September.
It is a little bit wild to me that Russia is successfully playing both sides of the fence here on Iran/Israel - they’re aligned with Iran because they’ve been a US adversary ever since we deeply fucked up their country in the Cold War (fair, if I’m being honest)… but they’re ALSO aligned with Israel for historical-ish (Jews/russian Jews/shared trauma in the course of WW2) reasons and ideological ones (both run by murderous authoritarians).
Hopefully this will make it less likely that Netanyahu declares Israel for the emerging US-Russian axis, a move which would be likely to end German military support for Ukraine (as alignment with Israel is Germany’s moral north star), reducing the “coalition of willing” to the UK, France, Poland, Scandinavia and a few increasingly nervous Baltic states.
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Good. Fuck the genocidal cult.
