After several days of air and missile attacks between Israel and Iran, the ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after bombing nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic. However, one question remains: why did Russia with which Tehran signed a security agreement early in the year did not help Iran during the conflict? Dimitar Bechev, director of the Dahrendorf program at the St Antony’s College European Studies Center, writes in Foreign Policy that Putin’s choice is guided by weakness. When things get serious, Bechev explains, Russia has neither the will nor the ability to intervene in the balance of the Middle East forces. However, the decision to hold away also reflects Moscow’s conflicting aspirations, as its interests demand that it manage a complex set of relationships with regional players, including Iran’s opponents and competitors. Bechev reports that, after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, […]
Source: News Beast
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