[🇮🇷] Security ties between Iran and Russia

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Senior Russian official in Tehran to deepen security ties
Agence France-Presse . Moscow 06 August, 2024, 00:26

Russia's national Security Council secretary on Monday arrived for a visit to Tehran, news agencies reported, amid fears of a wider war in the region following last week's killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.

Sergei Shoigu, Russia's ex-defence minister, was set to meet senior military and security officials as well as new President Masoud Pezeshkian to discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation in a wide range of spheres including security, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reported.

The visit was on the invitation of his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's local Tasnim news agency reported.

It said the visit had the aim of 'strengthening interactions, the examination of regional and international issues, and bilateral political security relations'.

Russia has 'strongly condemned' the killing of Haniyeh, the political leader of the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas, in Tehran last month.

Pezeshkian has described Russia as a 'valued strategic ally'.

Shoigu was removed as defence minister in May in a major shake-up of Russia's military leadership, becoming secretary of the Security Council instead.

The visit to one of Russia's key political allies underlines Shoigu's continued significant role.

As defence minister, he visited Iran in September last year, while his predecessor at the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, a longstanding ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, visited in late 2022.​

 

[Lulldapull]

I honestly believe that the irani’s have the upper hand here in military technology. There is nothing in the Russian arsenal which Iran covets possibly with the exception of nuclear submarines or ICBMS.

Truly! There ain’t nothing else that I can think off.

 

[Saif]

Germany, UK France slap sanctions on Iran over missiles for Russia

Germany, France and Britain on Tuesday condemned what they said was Iran’s delivery of ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war and declared new sanctions targeting...

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Germany, UK France slap sanctions on Iran over missiles for Russia
Agence France-Presse . Berlin 10 September, 2024, 21:31

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed during a visit to London on Tuesday that Iran has supplied ballistic missiles to Russia and ‘will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine’. | AFP file photo

Germany, France and Britain on Tuesday condemned what they said was Iran’s delivery of ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war and declared new sanctions targeting air transport.

‘We will be taking immediate steps to cancel bilateral air services agreements with Iran,’ they said in a joint statement, adding that they would also ‘work towards imposing sanctions on Iran Air’.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken had said earlier, on a visit to London, that Russia had received shipments of the ballistic missiles and ‘will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine’.

London, Paris and Berlin said that ‘we now have confirmation that Iran has made these transfers’.

‘This is a further escalation of Iran’s military support to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and will see Iranian missiles reaching European soil, increasing the suffering of the Ukrainian people,’ they said.

‘This act is an escalation by both Iran and Russia, and is a direct threat to European security.’

The three countries said they ‘will be taking immediate steps to cancel bilateral air services agreements with Iran’.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has increased its production of weapons this year, prime minister Denys Shmygal said Tuesday as outgunned Ukrainian troops are trying to fend off invading Russian soldiers.

‘In the first eight months of 2024, we have doubled our weapons production compared to 2023. We are making progress. Drone production continues to grow,’ Shmygal said.

He also said Ukraine planned to build over a million drones by the end of the year.

Ukraine is heavily relying on military support from its allies but has been developing its own arms industry to become less dependent on aid.

As part of these efforts, the Ukrainian military successfully tested a domestically-produced ballistic missile, president Volodymyr Zelensky said last month.

Zelensky also said that his forces had deployed in combat for the first time a Ukrainian-made long-range ‘rocket drone’ called Palianytsia.

While developing its own production, Ukraine is still lobbying for sustained aid from allies, including at the Ramstein meeting with key allies in Germany last week.

Zelensky urged quick delivery of the aid promised during the meeting in his daily address on Monday.

‘The course of the war directly depends on the quality of logistics in supply and the fulfullment of all promises by partners,’ Zelensky said.​

 

[Saif]

I honestly believe that the irani’s have the upper hand here in military technology. There is nothing in the Russian arsenal which Iran covets possibly with the exception of nuclear submarines or ICBMS.

Truly! There ain’t nothing else that I can think off.

Iran needs huge Russian help to modernize their air force. SU-35/57 can make Iranian air force deadlier than their counterparts in the region. Also Iran needs Russian S-400/500 to modernize their air defense capabilities. Iran currently has Russian S-300 and some domestically produced SAM systems, which are also based on Russian S-300 system.

 

[Lulldapull]

Iran needs huge Russian help to modernize their air force. SU-35/57 can make Iranian air force deadlier than their counterparts in the region. Also Iran needs Russian S-400/500 to modernize their air defense capabilities. Iran currently has Russian S-300 and some domestically produced SAM systems, which are also based on Russian S-300 system.

Bhai nobody wants Air Force anymore. We can evidently be reasonably confident on that score looking at ongoing wars over the last two years straight.

Russian SAMs have proven to be failures too over the last two years. Very patchy record.

Iranian SAMs like the Bavar 373 is based on the US SM-2 system with elements of the MIM-23 I -Hawk.

9th of Dey or the half a dozen others all use indigenous tech, with the only exception of the Karrar system which too is a modified Buk-M3 with a locally designed TEL.

There are elements taken from the Russian TOR or Buk systems, but we see many variations now.

I don’t see any Russian nor Chinese help toward Iranian drones nor CM’s/ BM’s nor SAMs.

However I do see substantial turnkey Chinese systems having been delivered to both the DPRK and Pakistan.

 

[Saif]

Bhai nobody wants Air Force anymore. We can evidently be reasonably confident on that score looking at ongoing wars over the last two years straight.

It's the Israeli air force that has destroyed Gaza. Hamas could not save Palestinians living in Gaza because they had no air force. Yes, Hezbollah got some success with drones but drones can't be an alternative to an air force. Look at Ukraine. They have got F-16 from the USA and the Russian president reacted to it seriously. If air force was not needed then the USA would not have supplied F-16 to Ukraine and the Russian president would not have reacted to it.

 

[Lulldapull]

It's the Israeli air force that has destroyed Gaza. Hamas could not save Palestinians living in Gaza because they had no air force. Yes, Hezbollah got some success with drones but drones can't be an alternative to an air force. Look at Ukraine. They have got F-16 from the USA and the Russian president reacted to it seriously. If air force was not needed then the USA would not have supplied F-16 to Ukraine and the Russian president would not have reacted to it.

Israel used its Air Force as bomb trucks. They just bombed civilians because Hamas has no air defenses. Even then, they can’t defeat Hamas. With total air superiority.

The six F-16’s supplied to the UKi’s have already dwindled down to four, in less than four weeks. They’ll make no difference in the outcome of that conflict.

 

[Saif]

Israel used its Air Force as bomb trucks. They just bombed civilians because Hamas has no air defenses. Even then, they can’t defeat Hamas. With total air superiority.

The six F-16’s supplied to the UKi’s have already dwindled down to four, in less than four weeks. They’ll make no difference in the outcome of that conflict.

I don't know why you are so dead against air force. If the world accepts your opinion on air force, then they have to stop funding 5th and 6th generation aircraft. I pray to God that Pakistan doesn't listen to you and goes ahead with its plan to induct 5th generation aircraft soon.

 

[Lulldapull]

I don't know why you are so dead against air force. If the world accepts your opinion on air force, then they have to stop funding 5th and 6th generation aircraft. I pray to God that Pakistan doesn't listen to you and goes ahead with its plan to induct 5th generation aircraft soon.

Oh bhai the NGAD is already unmanned no? Look at the reports.

Makes no sense putting a pilot in da machine cuz the AI already doing 100 times better than any human no?

AF is morphing into a huge high tech AI run cybernet type of an organization.

I’m willing to go on da record here that within the next decade, only third world countries will have manned weapon systems.

All advanced economies will be completely unmanned in almost all industries.

 

[Saif]

Iran threatens ‘action’ over new sanctions

Iran has vowed to respond to fresh sanctions imposed by Britain, France and Germany over what they said was its supply of short-range missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine.

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Iran threatens ‘action’ over new sanctions

Iran has vowed to respond to fresh sanctions imposed by Britain, France and Germany over what they said was its supply of short-range missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine.

"This action of the three European countries is the continuation of the hostile policy of the West and economic terrorism against the people of Iran, which will face the appropriate and proportionate action of the Islamic Republic of Iran," foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement late Tuesday.

The three governments had announced they would take steps to cancel air services agreements with Iran and "work towards imposing sanctions on Iran Air".

"In addition, we will pursue the designations of significant entities and individuals involved with Iran's ballistic missile programme and the transfer of ballistic missiles and other weapons to Russia," they added.

Iran denied the allegation. "Any claim that the Islamic Republic of Iran has sold ballistic missiles to the Russian Federation is completely baseless and false," Kanani said.​

 

[Saif]

Russia, Iran hail ‘close’ world views

Vladimir Putin and Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday hailed their ‘close’ views on world affairs, with the Russian leader saying ties with Tehran were a ‘priority’ for Moscow.

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Russia, Iran hail ‘close’ world views
Agence France-Presse . Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 11 October, 2024, 21:55

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin meets with Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of an international forum ‘Interrelation of times and civilizations - basis of peace and development’ in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on Friday. | AFP photo

Vladimir Putin and Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday hailed their ‘close’ views on world affairs, with the Russian leader saying ties with Tehran were a ‘priority’ for Moscow.

The pair held a meeting in Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most secretive states, amid soaring tensions in the Middle East, with Israeli air strikes on Lebanon’s capital Beirut that it says are aimed at Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

Relations between Russia and Iran — both under Western sanctions—have strengthened massively since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, with Tehran widely believed to be supplying Moscow with weapons.

‘Relations with Iran are a priority for us, they are developing very successfully,’ Putin said. ‘We are actively working together on the international arena, and our views of events in the world are often very close.’

According to a Russian translation, Pezeshkian said relations between the two countries are ‘sincere.’

‘Our positions on the international stage are similar,’ he said.

He said the situation in the Middle East is ‘difficult’, saying ‘the USA and Europe do not want the situation to calm down.’

In a short video published by a Russian state TV reporter, Pezeshkian accused Israel of bombing civilians and being backed by Western powers, according to a Russian translation.

The leaders are meeting for the first time at a regional summit in the Central Asian country.

The Kremlin earlier said the two will discuss mutual relations as well as the situation in the Middle East.

Pezeshkian will also hold talks with Putin during a visit to Russia later this month to attend the new BRICS summit.

He was inaugurated in late July, taking office after his predecessor died in a helicopter crash.

Meanwhile, Iran said it is ‘fully prepared to defend its sovereignty’ if its arch-foe Israel attacks as it has threatened to do in response to a barrage of about 200 missiles.

The Islamic republic launched the missiles at Israel on October 1 in retaliation for the killing of two of its closest allies, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, along with an Iranian general.

Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant vowed this week that his country’s response would be ‘deadly, precise and surprising’.

In an address to the UN Security Council on Thursday, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, said the Islamic republic ‘stands fully prepared to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity against any aggression targeting its vital interests and security’.

Iran, he said, was not seeking ‘war or escalation’ but would exercise its ‘inherent right to self-defence fully in line with international law and will notify the Security Council of its legitimate response’.

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said meanwhile in an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic on Thursday that ‘we do not want a war’, but ‘we are not afraid of it, and we will be ready for any scenario’.

The warnings come against the backdrop of a war between Israel and Iran-allied Palestinian militant group Hamas that has been raging for more than a year and has expanded to include Lebanon in recent weeks.

‘Lebanon stands on the brink of a humanitarian collapse, and the international community must not allow this catastrophe to worsen,’ Iran’s UN representative Iravani said.​

 

[Saif]

Russia, Iran sign strategic cooperation treaty

Move likely to worry West

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Russia, Iran sign strategic cooperation treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attend a documents signing ceremony in Moscow, Russia January 17, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina
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• Move likely to worry West​
• Both suffer setbacks in Middle East​
• Iranian drones used in Ukraine war​

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday signed a 20-year strategic partnership treaty involving closer defence cooperation that is likely to worry the West.

Pezeshkian, on his first Kremlin visit since winning the presidency last July, hailed the signing as an important new chapter in the two countries' relations, while Putin said Moscow and Tehran had many of the same views on international affairs.

"This (treaty) creates better conditions for bilateral cooperation in all areas," said Putin, emphasising the upside for economic ties and trade, which he said was mostly carried out in the two countries' own currencies.

"We need less bureaucracy and more concrete action. Whatever difficulties are created by others we will be able to overcome them and move forward," Putin added, referring to Western sanctions on both countries.

Putin said Russia regularly informed Iran about what was going on in the Ukraine conflict and that they closely consulted on events in the Middle East and South Caucasus region.

Russia and Iran were the main military allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Moscow after being toppled last month. The West also accuses Iran of providing missiles and drones for Russian attacks on Ukraine. Moscow and Tehran say their increasingly close ties are not directed against other countries.

Putin said work on a potential gas pipeline to carry Russian gas to Iran was progressing despite difficulties, and that, despite delays in building new nuclear reactors for Iran, Moscow was open to potentially taking on more nuclear projects.

Pezeshkian, whose words were translated by Russian state TV, said the treaty would create good opportunities and showed Moscow and Iran did not need to heed the opinion of what he called "countries over the ocean".

"The agreements we reached today are another stimulus when it comes to the creation of a multi-polar world," he said.

CLOSE COOPERATION

Moscow has cultivated closer ties with Iran and other countries hostile towards the US, such as North Korea, since the start of the Ukraine war, and already has strategic pacts with Pyongyang and close ally Belarus, as well as a partnership agreement with China.

Immediate details of the 20-year Russia-Iran agreement were not available but it was not expected to include a mutual defence clause of the kind sealed with Minsk and Pyongyang. It is still likely to concern the West, however, which sees both countries as malign influences on the world stage.

Neither leader mentioned defence cooperation during their Kremlin press conference, but officials from both countries had said earlier that part of the pact focused on defence.

Russia has made extensive use of Iranian drones during the war in Ukraine and the United States accused Tehran in September of delivering close-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine.

Tehran denies supplying drones or missiles. The Kremlin has declined to confirm it has received Iranian missiles, but has acknowledged that its cooperation with Iran includes "the most sensitive areas".

Russia has supplied Iran with S-300 air defence missile systems in the past and there have been reports in Iranian media of potential interest in buying more advanced systems such as the S-400 and of acquiring advanced Russian fighter jets.

Pezeshkian's visit to Moscow comes at a time when Iran's influence across the Middle East is in retreat with the fall of Assad in Syria and the Israeli pounding of Iran-backed groups Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The fate of two major Russian military facilities in Syria has been uncertain since the fall of Assad.​

 

[Lulldapull]

Iran will get the two key technologies that Russia has a lead on Iran with:

SSBN reactors
Space tech

This is all Iran needs from Russia. In exchange Iran is happy to provide SRBM/ IRBM and drone technology to the Russians.