Russian missile experts visited Iran amid growing military ties

Russian subject experts visited Iran connected 2 occasions successful 2024 arsenic Tehran looked to grow its practice with Moscow portion its web of absorption suffered devastating blows amid warfare with Israel.

"Russian rocket specialists don’t conscionable look retired of the blue," Behnam Ben Taleblu, elder chap astatine the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.

"Alarm bells should beryllium going disconnected successful Washington and Jerusalem," Taleblu added.

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Senior rocket and aerial defence experts traveled to Tehran successful April and September 2024, Reuters reported, arsenic Iran was embroiled successful determination confrontation with Israel pursuing the Oct. 7 Hamas panic attack. 

FDD’s Taleblu said the sojourn is impervious that immoderate effort to divorcement Russia from Iran volition beryllium self-defeating for the United States. 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a gathering with atomic scientists and unit of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, successful Tehran, connected June 11. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA/Reuters )

It is unclear precisely what benignant of practice was discussed during these visits. Nicholas Carl of the American Enterprise Institute notes that it comes astatine a clip erstwhile Iran is looking to Russia for further aerial defence enactment and Russia is buying Iranian drones and missiles to usage against Ukraine. Experts, including Carl, hold that Russia and Iran are progressively collaborating to support 1 different beardown and successful pursuit of their communal nonsubjective of eroding U.S. planetary influence.

Cooperation betwixt Russia and Iran has intensified since Moscow launched its penetration of Ukraine. Iran came to Russia's assistance and supplied drones and ammunition erstwhile its forces faced stiff absorption from Ukraine, portion Iran successful 2023 purchased Russian combatant jets and helicopters.

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Moscow and Tehran further deepened their concern successful January aft signing a 20-year "comprehensive strategical concern treaty," though the pact does not person a corporate information agreement.

The revelations travel arsenic the Kremlin said aboriginal Russia-U.S. talks volition see discussions implicit Iran’s atomic program. Bloomberg reported that Moscow agreed to assistance the U.S. successful talks implicit Iran’s atomic program, though Kremlin officials refused to confirm, and alternatively said that it would simply beryllium a taxable of discussion.

President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian shingle hands arsenic they conscionable successful Moscow, Russia, Jan. 17, 2025. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool via Reuters)

Andrea Stricker, who focuses connected nonproliferation astatine FDD, told Fox News Digital that, if true, outsourcing Iran atomic talks to Russia is not a look for success.

"As a cardinal ally, Moscow has a vested involvement successful keeping Iran adjacent to the atomic threshold. If helium pursues diplomacy, Trump should judge nary little than the full, permanent, and verified atomic disarmament of Iran," Stricker added.

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Trump withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, besides known arsenic the Iran atomic deal, during his archetypal word successful 2018 and reapplied harsh economical sanctions. The Biden medication had initially looked astatine re-engaging with Iran connected the atomic contented upon taking office, but on-again-off-again talks went nowhere, analyzable by Iran’s home authorities and its relation successful supporting its panic groups successful the region.

Putting a halt to Iran’s atomic programme could beryllium an contented wherever the U.S. and Russia find communal ground.

U.S. and Iranian officials be the Iran atomic talks astatine a edifice successful Vienna, Austria, connected June 30, 2015. (Pool/Siamek Ebrahimi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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Since returning to the White House, President Trump has sought to amended relations with Russia, which were mostly chopped disconnected by the Biden medication aft Russia invaded Ukraine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. officials met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov successful Saudi Arabia past period and agreed to amended relations, grow economical ties, and yet bring an extremity to the warfare successful Ukraine.