Russia and Iran's Marriage of Convenience Is No Strategic Alliance
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, made it in February 2013 when he answered speculation that Russia might intervene to stop the implosion of Syrian state structures in a war that by then had been raging for more than three years: “We will not be fighting for our positions… and creating ‘another Afghanistan’ for ourselves. Never, under no circumstances!” , it was the first Russian military deployment in the Middle East since the infamous Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in the 1980s. But Russia had always insisted that this was ...
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