drmeson
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Turkey was part of the F-35 development program. Why can't Iran be part of the Sukhoi-57 program, for example?
My point is that there's no "The Three". Russia currently has bad relations with the West over the Ukraine conflict. As soon as that's over, there's a good chance that Russia will backstab Iran again. The lessons of the S300 deal should never be forgotten. As for China, even as we speak, the Chinese are actively transferring sensitive knowledge to the Saudis to develop their ballistic and nuclear programs. I can't see China as a friend as long as their first priority in the region is to guarantee power balance between us and our regional adversaries.
- Russia is not powerful enough to take on NATO or EU+US by getting Iran on SU-57. Iranian doctrine itself doesn't revolve around fighter jets. We can inflict more damage to the enemy in 30 mins then what 70 x SU-57 achieves.
- Iran backstabs Russia as well. What are we doing in Doha? threatening Russia that your oil blackmail can become useless very fast if we sign something here with Americans and the EU.
- China has a company system. One company's services may be purchased by Saudis for DF-17 BM, the other company might be working with IEI in Tehran for the development of the S-500 equivalent version of Bavar-373. They are merchants and Iran knows this very well. Hire their services for good money they might even build us a factory of J-31 inside Iran.
Right now these three countries are aligned. Other than that there are no friends or enemies in international politics.