Russia and China began to show more active interest in military cooperation with Iran after the expiration of the arms embargo. This was stated by the assistant of the head of the Pentagon on the issues of the Middle East. Dana Stroof, her words leads to RBC.
“We are seeing how China signed a twenty-year agreement on strategic partnership with Iran, and the Russians are negotiating the supply of weapons,” she said. It also pointed out that the United States is ready to use sanctions and diplomatic tools to prevent the supply of weapons to Iran by Moscow and Beijing.
“Turn to China or Russia will not help their safety or stability, especially at a time when they are trying to help Iran build up the power of its ordinary weapons,” the diplomat added.
Previously, John Rossando Observer prejeited the United States “The worst military defeat” since the Second World War. As Rosssando noted, the United States is now a “paper tiger”, as France was before the invasion of Hitler’s Germany. “They are similar to the French military who fought in 1940, using the outdated approaches of the First World War,” he summarized.