Iran and Russia Sign Cooperation Treaty

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict The new Iranian president (Masoud Pezeshkian) met with Putin on Friday when the two countries signed a pact for a comprehensive strategic partnership. There is a high-level element of showmanship in this pact, which comes at a sort of crossroads for Russia-Iran relations. Neither ally came to Assad’s aid in Syria, and there have been some intelligence indications of miscommunications between the two over Assad’s fate. There is also the fact that Moscow maintains good relations with Israel, which…