"Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime," Trump said in a video posted to his Truth Social, confirming U.S. invovlement in the strikes.

Iran remains one of Russia’s most important allies, particularly since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, the Iranian regime “has brought so much evil to Ukraine.”

Zelensky met with Pahlavi on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 13, condemning cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.

Tehran supplied Russia early in the war with Shahed-type attack drones, which Moscow later adapted into its own Geran-1 and Geran-2 models for relentless strikes on Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure.

For the Kremlin, the timing of Iran’s crisis couldn’t be worse.

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  • BuffaloxEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Iran is a strategic ally Russia cannot afford to lose, he said, adding that Moscow would likely do everything possible to prevent such an outcome.

    Russia will do nothing, just like they did with Venezuela, and are doing with Cuba.
    All they’ll do is complain about it, but they don’t have any real power to do anything.
    In Syria they actually tried, but they were hopelessly ineffective.

      • BuffaloxEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        Yes unfortunately they did, but they failed to protect the Syrian regime, despite the massive strategic importance for Russia of their bases there, that were also a gateway to much of their influence in Africa.
        So they tried and failed.

        • breakfastmtn@piefed.caOPEnglish
          41·
          2 days ago

          You’re completely right. But if Russia’s able to prop up a failing, increasingly repressive regime in Iran for years, it will be such a nightmare for Iranians. Malevolent fucks.

          • BuffaloxEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            I don’t think they have the resources to do anything.