Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to avoid civilian casualties in Iran’s expected reprisal attack on Israel for the killing of Hamas’s political chief in Tehran, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing two unnamed Iranian sources.
The sources said the message was delivered by Sergey Shoigu, head of the Russian Security Council and former defense minister. Shoigu was in Tehran on Monday and met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The New York Times reported that Iran had requested air defenses from Russia in the meeting as it prepares for a potential war with Israel and the US and that Moscow had already begun delivering radars and air defense equipment.
Russia and Iran have increased military ties in recent years as a result of both countries facing heavy US sanctions, but so far, neither country has confirmed that Russia is delivering new equipment.
Brig. Gen. Alireza Elhami, the deputy commander of Iran’s air defense forces, said that the Iranian military was in the process of upgrading its air defense systems but added that Tehran is not relying on any foreign country.
“We are 100% self-sufficient and we are not dependent on foreign equipment, and the security of our air borders is not dependent on foreign countries,” Elhami said, according to Iran’s Mehr news agency.
Shoigu said that during his visit to Tehran, he discussed Israeli escalations in Lebanon and the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which he called a “tragic event.”
Shoigu said he discussed with Iranian officials a “whole range of issues, starting with Syria. Certainly, the disturbing developments on Lebanon’s border with Israel were on the agenda. Of course, the recent tragic events that took place in Tehran were touched upon. It was impossible to bypass this topic.”
Good for him. Imagine if the west thought like this.
The “west” has been evil for a long time. Looking back, I can’t recall ever being good.
Because you're a myopic jagoff.
Are you perchance sickly Narcissistic? All your attempts at insults have this appearance to be inspired by looking in the mirror.
I've Blocked whoever it is you're responding to, but, if you're up against a self-aggrandizing clown hurling insults, it HAS to be (ir)Rational Thunker.
You guessed right, but I have to say, I don't think I am all that far apart from him actually. But we do disagree on a certain number of things and we both perhaps enjoy being abrasive a bit more than absolutely necessary.
I don't miss him.
You are at least not in his "you're wrong because I'm right" mindset of self-delusion.
And also to your credit, I've never seen you goad a Commenter with repeated racial slurs like Ratio Tinkle did, leading to me Blocking his dim Russophobic duff.
Your sentence structure is odd. (I point this out, not as the grammar police, but as a person questioning your grasp of English.)
But — to retort — my use of the insult is meant to expose the author of the post as someone who would be ridiculed if present within a group of people who are familiar with history — not anti-Western "talking points".
Well you know, there have always been people just like you slinging the same sort of childish insults and pathetic insinuations of conspiring with the designated Hitler of the day at anyone not buying sufficiently into the war- and hatemongering propaganda that has become the raison d'etre of our legacy media. Of course as usual the people who are silent during the daily minutes of hate form the intolerable disturbance to the harmony.
That was articulate and well thought out. The fact that it was pure bulls**t should not detract from your eloquent delivery.
What is myopic about being right? The US is the greatest instigator of terror and instability world-wide, plus the majority of both houses are beholden and bought off by AIPAC. The US government is a sociopathic menace, and I am being nice..
All evil all the time is just childish, son. Present specific examples and stop using talking points. (I'll agree with you when you do that.)
Concordantly, while your first response may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant.
Sadly I believe you are right..all of the marketing propaganda and the media shills who deliver it cannot hide that the US is the greatest terror state in the last 100 years…
When the colonists defeated King George and they had their independence from English rule, they acquired with this victory a deep-seated hunger for MORE victories, and the rest is history. First the Native American Indians were genocided, then Mexico, the rest is history to today! Sadly, the intoxicating social effects of "winning a war" is only prelude to the agenda of raw conquest! Terrorism is the spice to raw conquest.
I was referring to western civilization for the past 500 years.
Israel will probably blow up three buildings (with scores of Israelis in them) and blame it on "Iranian atrocities". October 7 redo. Can anyone be faulted for doubting the words of forces that have ALWAYS lied to get their way?
USA Viet Nam strategy – destroy the village to save it. (From the "communists")
Israeli military strategy – kill "terrorist" AND hostage. (absolutely NO negotiating with terrorists!)
These two nations, joined at the hip, BOTH use total destruction as a means to an end!
Is Russia not aware of the 200,000 dead in Gaza from starvation cholera, dysentery, as well as typhoid and issues lack of medicine doctors and hospitals?
Not to mention 70,000 tons of bombs on CIVILIANS?
Oh, they know. I think what was missing from the end of Putin's statement was, (avoid civilian casualties) "…and use these coordinates for maximal results."
I don't know that the Russian Federation has anything for or against the Apartheid State of Israel, but if Ukraine can be the US proxy against the RF, then the IRI can be the RF proxy against the USA's precious ASI.
I am sure they are. But I'm also sure they are very well aware of the prevalence of Western racism, that goes millions of lightyears beyond their own awareness of it.
Western countries do not care, don't think it worthy of the mildest note of disapproval when Palestinians are murdered now in, what was the number Lancet wrote? 186.000 and counting, with a brutal sadistic state organized death machine not seen since the days of the Third Reich with and supported with a deeply disturbing automaticity by the US and Europe. Special mention for Germany who have yet to see an extermination program of designated Untermenschen they don't like.
But if say ten or hundred Israeli should die they with absolute certainty will go beserk and they, sure as hell will not do "restraint". This, the liberation of Palestine, is a long game. I don't think the Russians needed to remind the Iranians of that, but the Russians might have some advantage in predictive power of Western responses and acquaintance with the wilfull abstinence of logic and inimitable mixture of insanity and stupidity that goes into their decision making process. Israel might then be a parody of that, but none of them are responsible actors.
Russia is practicing restraint in Ukraine. But restraint is the luxury of the dominant and powerful. The Palestinians are the victims. For them to practice restraint would be to invite their certain annihilation.
Russia is practicing ZERO restraint in Ukraine. (I would give examples but you tankies would cry, "corrupt, Western, lamestream media!")
Having said that, the Russians, Iranians, et al ARE correct in supporting the Palestinians against genocide and the continuing apartheid by Israel.
Here's to the end of ALL aggression and to a free Palestinian state!
You do indeed sound like a faithful consumer of Western mainstream press if you actually felt an urge to compare the civilian death toll in Russia's SMO in Ukraine with the actual genocide on Palestinians. That is what zero restraint looks like. It's something the Americans not just condone, no they support it, they are willing to lay down other people's lives defending it. Well that latter part is perhaps a bit superfluous. That's never not the case.
The difference?
Russia shows no restraint but is incapable of genocide.
Israel is EXTREMELY capable of genocide.
(Just because Putin's military is incompetent doesn't mean they don't want to.)
And the fact that you still refer to it as the "SMO" shows who gives you your walking papers.
I don't know what the argument here is, but yes Russia does not commit genocide and yes the Israeli do. They are capable yes, I would say their capabilities are on par with the SS. So, no argument there. I agree.
Whether the Russians are capable of genocide or not, I don't know for sure, but I do hope you are right.
You know what? I read your post incorrectly. I thought you implied the Russians WERE using restraint and the Israelis weren't. Please disregard my reply.
Multiple brilliant perspectives. Thank you.
Keeping in mind that Russia has worked out a deal for Iran to use the Volga and Dan Rivers. This provides Iran access to the Mediterranean Sea and the railroad line that connects China to Europe via Moscow.
Russia is also Iran's largest foreign investor and a railroad line is being built to connect Moscow to the Persian Gulf, which is well defended by Iran.
Another important perspective is that China supports an independent Palestinian state and just finished assisting helping Egypt build a new givernment center in Cairo.
The DPRC has been investing in Africa for a very long time. A co-worker years ago, was from Sudan (before The South rebelled against the Union) and said there were impressive buildings and bridges that China had funded in Khartoum. Structures the equal of any in Europe or North America.
False statement…! Iran just revealed to press three brand new air defense systems…!
What’s false about it?
Look at the Bold…!
Hmmm … that Iran has some homemade defenses doesn’t mean they wouldn’t want more and better Russian ones …?
Reportedly Russia has delivered advanced ECM – electronic countermeasures – read: "electronic warfare" – equipment and quite a bit of it – several of the largest Russian military transport aircraft.
And unless Iran has been previously trained on that Russian equipment for quite some time, that means Russian advisors will be running that gear. The Russians have the most advanced ECM in the world.
This is gear intended to scramble GPS – reportedly it is already affecting GPS in the entire Middle East – and other electronic systems used for controlling aircraft and missiles. It's the sort of thing Russia used in Syria during the Trump administration to knock down 75-90% of all drones and Tomahawk cruise missiles Trump fired at Syrian air bases.
It's the same stuff that when a Russian jet buzzed a US naval ship in the Black Sea, the entire ship went dead in the water.
Using this stuff means that anything Israel or the US fires at Iran will likely miss its target and aircraft will find their navigation unreliable. If the range is long enough – I've heard 4,000km, which seems a lot – it might be able to fuzz Israel and US air defenses in the entire region enough to make it easier for Iranian and Hezbollah missiles to get through any air defenses and hit their targets more precisely.
So it wasn't just "Russia asking for restraint". That's just the cover story. In reality, Russia has Iran's back in the coming Middle East conflict. How much further Russia will go will depend on how things develop.
Interesting. Is there an AIPAC like entity in Russia too? It seems every one is afraid of Israeli madness.
”Shoigu said that during his visit to Tehran, he discussed Israeli escalations in Lebanon and the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which he called a “tragic event.”
It is criminal not just tragic event.