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Indeed,its quite remarkable just how much the iran-russia relationship has changed in the short time since the ukraine conflict kicked off.The international situation says otherwise.
Just a year ago this would`ve been completely unthinkable.Who knows perhaps the mythical grand bargain that many used to like to dream about the possibility of between iran and the west,will instead be realised between iran and russia,who knows?
The fact of the matter is that the iran-russia dynamic has clearly changed from one where the very best that could be said about it was that it was a sometime partnership of mutual convenience on a very,very limited range of issues.More often than not tho`,the unpleasant reality was that the russans were "reliably unreliable",pretty much always a day late and a rouble short in most of their dealings with iran,preferring instead to treat iran as some kind of bargaining chip in russias increasingly problematic relations with the west.
In the end I doubt that the russians would`ve received much more than a pat on the head from the west from towing the western line on iran.
It will be interesting to see if iran actually does receive the talked about su-35s in the next few months,if it does this will be a very clear sign of just how much things have changed and that iran is now shaping up to be a very important partner for russia politically,militarily and economically,and of course vice versa for iran.
One can also see why the west has expended so much effort in its propaganda war against iran in the last few months,as an iran russia alignment would considerably decrease the effectiveness of the economic warfare that it is waging against both nations.
The potential here for both nations is considerable,however only time will tell if it can be realised.