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Russia, Iran strengthen alliance after Syria setback (www.aljazeera.com)
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The agreement builds not only on Russian-Iranian cooperation regarding Ukraine and efforts to evade Western sanctions, but also on the North-South Transport Corridor – an initiative championed by Moscow to facilitate trade from Asia to Russia.

This route, designed to bypass geopolitical choke points like the Suez Canal and the Baltics, favours a land corridor through Iran, Azerbaijan, and the Caspian Sea.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"bypassing" the Suez canal is basically sanctioning yourself...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Shame Russia shot down an Azari civilian plane and "supported" Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh (not that Armenia deserved the war). Good luck with that land corridor you terrorist fucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bit of copy pasta from the other thread:

You know, if our stupid government wasn’t so full of hawks, we’d have repaired our relationship with Iran years ago.

My father traveled there about a decade ago and said that everyone they met was super friendly and welcoming. He was forever jaded about the way their country is portrayed in western media after that.

Is their government fucked up? Yes. But we should try to build friendly relations in hopes of influencing them to treat their people better rather than causing them to cozy up to a shithead like Putin.