To be sure, the long history of relations between Russians and Persians is strewn with episodes of bloody clashes that have left traces, such as the famous day of January 30, 1829, which saw an Iranian mob in Tehran assassinate almost all the members of the Russian embassy, including its most eminent representative Alexander Griboyedov, great writer and friend of Pushkin. savagely beheaded. Russian-Chinese relations, which in 1969 saw Beijing and Moscow wage war on the Amur River for several weeks, remain marked by immense suspicion. China and Russia take a dim view of Iran approaching the nuclear threshold.
But an anti-Western geopolitical triangle has nevertheless emerged on the world stage at the beginning of the twenty-first century, linking the three countries. On Tuesday, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, was in Tehran to discuss Russian-Iranian military cooperation with his counterpart Shahram Irani. The boss...
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