Russia is just like Iran, bankrupt with a weak & worthless army, hyping the crap out of themselves like they are some sort of cornered animal. They both suffer from delusions of grandeur, imagining themselves as sort of superpower fulfilling its destiny.
While world has moved on, gravitating their policies towards economic security, both these countries are bankrupt or heading there, surviving by a thread due to natural resources. Both suffer from brain drain, as their talented youth don't see a future and head for the western countries. There is no love lost either, as Russian or Iranian expatriates typically hate their oppressive governments.
Instead of solving their economic problems or focusing on human development, two critical components for US power, both countries instead try to annex land & punch far above their weight. Russia explicitly annexes land, while Iran does it implicitly through Shi'a proxies. This is the same stupid policy that caused the USSR to implode in on itself. While their country was bankrupt, people impoverished with no fabric holding multiple ethnicities together, collapse of USSR was not a surprise.
Militarily, Russia was seen as near-peer to the US. Now with their butts kicked in Ukraine, I'm sure US military giggle at that thought. Russian military is not even in the same league as the US. Russia was nothing more than hype and nuclear bluff.
Iranian military is even worse. Their military runs on spares and fictional Iranian superweapons. Then there is another parallel military, the guard which exists to protect their leader from a coup by the military. Such a stupid system exists nowhere else on earth. Their strategy is asymmetrical warfare and using the endless supply of brainwashed Shi'a militia to throw as zombie meat-shields at strategic objectives. Similar to Russian or North Korean nuclear blackmail, the Iranians hold the Gulf countries hostage to ballistic missiles and terror attacks.
To be in an alliance with either of the two is embarrassing. To think they are going to become superpowers is pretty stupid.