The National Interest: "The Iranian leadership relies on its longtime ally, Russia"

The US analytical publication The Nation writes about the possibility of a war with Russia. For several months the major publications in Europe and the United States have been writing that the threat of a new Cold War is coming from Russia. Is this really so? In fact, the American side, namely the administration of President Obama, is sabotaging cooperation with Moscow on three ‘fronts’ of opposition.

Refusing to accept President Putin's convincing arguments that the Syrian army and its allies are the only force that are effectively fighting Islamic State, Washington and its loyal media condemn Russian military campaign against the ‘moderate’ insurgents, many of whom are jihadists. For this reason, the peace talks in Geneva, mediated by Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, were on the verge of collapse. As for the confrontation in Ukraine, where the political and economic crisis is getting worse, the Minsk Agreement, on which everyone bases their hopes, has actually been sabotaged by the UN: the US Ambassador Samantha Power said that  Russia should return Crimea to Ukraine for the implementation of the agreements, but in fact Crimea is not mentioned in the contract.

While Europe was in favor of ending the economic sanctions against Russia, as evidenced by the results of the referendum in the Netherlands and the decision of the French parliament to lift the sanctions, Obama is lobbying hard against such a move at a vote this summer. At the same time, the US-led NATO alliance continues to expand its area of ​​influence and build up its military presence near Russia's borders. It is not surprising that Russia, in turn, sends warplanes to scout out the situation near the Russian naval base in Kaliningrad. Steadily getting closer to the borders of Russia for the last 20 years, Washington and Brussels accuse Moscow of ‘provocations against NATO.’ However,  the alliance’s steps remind Russia of the German invasion of 1941, when hostile military forces were mobilized at the border of the country.

Thus, the US leadership is making every effort to provoke Russia to take retaliatory action. But the consequences of such a provocation could be detrimental, especially for the United States. The Obama administration should urgently revise its foreign policy toward the Kremlin, otherwise it could jeopardize the entire international community.

The US publication The National Interest writes about the relations between Russia and Iran. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the US is an enemy of Iran and that it cannot be trusted, because the US government wants to subdue the Islamic Republic and thus dominate the region. Even after the signing of the agreement on the INP, Khamenei repeatedly stated that Iran had carried out its obligations under the contract, while the United States did so only ‘on paper’.

At the same time, the Iranian leadership relies on its longtime ally, Russia, in spite of the differences that have existed in the past. Iran seeks to expand its relations with the Kremlin in the political, economic, regional and international spheres. The US attempts to dominate the region have not achieved their goal, since cooperation between Iran and Russia in a clearly defined framework allows the plans of the American leadership to be resisted.