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Putin in Tehran for talks with leaders of Iran, Turkey
[apnews.com]





TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Tuesday in Iran for a visit intended to deepen ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow’s challenge to the United States and Europe amid its grinding campaign in Ukraine.

In only his second trip abroad since Russian tanks rolled into its neighbor in February, Putin is meeting Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on pressing issues facing the region, including the conflict in Syria and a U.N.-backed proposal to resume exports of Ukrainian grain to ease the global food crisis.

As the West heaps sanctions on Russia and the costly campaign drags on, Putin is seeking to bolster ties with Tehran, a fellow target of severe U.S. sanctions and a potential military and trade partner. In recent weeks, Russian officials visited an airfield in central Iran at least twice to review Tehran’s weapons-capable drones for possible use in Ukraine, the White House has alleged.

Iran rolled out a long red carpet for Putin at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, where Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji greeted him warmly before he was whisked into his presidential convoy to the city.

But perhaps most crucially, the Tehran trip offers Putin a chance for a high-stakes meeting with Erdogan, who has sought to help broker talks on a peaceful settlement of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as well as help negotiations to unblock Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.

Erdogan keeps playing both sides of the street.

I guess Tehran will get its nukes after all, courtesy of the New USSR.

It would be a real shame if Putin got whacked in or near Iran by some militants. Such a shame.

Also, a big "thanks" to Drumpf for pulling the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal.

Now would be the time to drop that bomb … wouldn't shed one crocodile tear.

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Now would be the time to drop that bomb … wouldn't shed one crocodile tear.

Yeah we would because we'd be ducking bombs too. Unless some uhhh rogue bombers did it. We'd probably still get lit up.



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Now would be the time to drop that bomb … wouldn't shed one crocodile tear.

Yeah we would because we'd be ducking bombs too. Unless some uhhh rogue bombers did it. We'd probably still get lit up.

Ukrainian assassination team? X

Ukrainian assassination team?

They were just fired by the Prez. Housecleaning of left over Russian 5th columnists.

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