Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a long-discussed (and criticized) Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty.
The agreement was signed on January 17th with an official ceremony at the Kremlin, and according to Russian news agency TASS, will be a 360 degree partnership, including “defence, counter-terrorism, energy, finance, transport, industry, agriculture, culture, science and engineering.”
As confirmed by Putin, through the Kremlin’s website, this 20-year agreement seals large projects already underway, which involve logistics and the energy sector, including those related to nuclear energy.
It is not the first time that the 2 countries have been linked by a strategic comprehensive agreement. Indeed, in 2001, Tehran and Moscow signed a 20-year agreement, which now will be reshaped, and noting the international isolation of the 2 countries, will be bolstered up. In the last 3 years, no feedback has been advertised by either of the countries about the previous one, however it is expected that the 2 sectors which are likely to play the main roles in the new agreement are the defence and the security ones.
The production of SHAHED suicide drones in Russia, to support Moscow’s war efforts in Ukraine, and the enhancement of the Iranian air defense with S-300 systems, provided by the Kremlin, are just current examples of the dangerous ramifications that the new agreement could strengthen or create.
But, as confirmed by Benham Ben Taleblu, Senior fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the US and its partners and allies are more worried about future cooperation “in the nuclear and space domains, where Iran has great interest and Russia has great aptitude.”
At the same time, noting that both countries lost some of “their grips” in the Middle East, in terms of bases, concessions and credible proxies, it is expected that the 2 countries will endeavor to find synergies to achieve their goals in the region. Putin’s foreign policy goal is likely to unify all the countries hit by Western sanctions, building closer ties with Iran, China, and North Korea, to fight what he calls “US-led global hegemony.” This policy seems to be driven not by shared visions or interests but more by “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” logic.
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