After Iran’s Islamic revolution of 1978-79, periods of tension between Washington and Moscow have generally been synonymous with rapprochement between Moscow and Tehran. In keeping with this, the Ukrainian crisis and the conflict in Syria since spring 2011 have created new common interests between Iran and Russia.
Two narratives collide. On one hand the Western media presented the Maidan revolution in Ukraine as a “democratic revolution” against a Moscow-backed autocratic regime. From this perspective, the Russian strategy is to prevent the emergence of a democratic, pro-European regime on its border. The counter pro-Russian narrative, adhered to by some Iranian conservatives, holds …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
