Just three days before US President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, Russia and Iran are set to finally sign a “comprehensive partnership agreement,” a deal that’s been in the works for months.
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President-elect Donald Trump's designate to serve as his Ukraine and Russia envoy says the U.S. must reapply the maximum pressure campaign and the Iranian people have a chance for a new future.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries on Friday by signing a 20-year strategic partnership that is likely to worry the West.
The agreement is focused more on trade than military issues, but it will bring two countries with a shared desire to challenge the West closer together.
Iran has already supplied Russia with self-detonating "Shahed" drones that Moscow fires on Ukraine in nightly barrages, according to Ukrainian and Western officials. Sitting next to Putin in the Kremlin after signing the treaty, Pezeshkian called for a political settlement to end the nearly three-year conflict.
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The presidents of Russia and Iran have signed a broad cooperation pact to deepen their partnership amid stinging Western sanctions.
Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine.
Trump Team Readies Oil Sanctions Plan for Russia Deal
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Trump Team Readies Oil Sanctions Plan for Russia Deal, Iran Squeeze
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Ratcheting up sanctions on Russian oil may be the key to Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine
Oil Sanctions: Trump's Leverage in Ukraine-Russia Conflict?
The Trump administration is crafting a sanctions strategy aimed at achieving a Russia-Ukraine peace deal while maintaining pressure on Iran and Venezuela, but faces challenges due to Biden's existing sanctions and the complexities of the conflict.
Trump's incoming envoy Keith Kellogg spoke about returning to a policy of 'maximum pressure' on Iran during an event Saturday in Paris.
Donald Trump’s victory has now set expectations for how he’ll approach foreign policy, writes TIME columnist Ian Bremmer
Last weekend, the president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming envoy on Ukraine, Gen. Keith Kellogg, spoke in Paris at an event of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also known as MEK (Mujahedeen-e Khalk), a Iranian exile group that seeks to overthrow the Islamic government in the country.
The two countries signed 20-year cooperation pact, but despite anti-US stance there are limits to their partnership.
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