{"id":262939,"date":"2017-08-05T19:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=262939"},"modified":"2020-11-22T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T16:57:45","slug":"russia-iran-to-boost-military-cooperation-as-both-get-hit-by-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/russia-iran-to-boost-military-cooperation-as-both-get-hit-by-us-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia & Iran to boost military cooperation as both get hit by US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
The US is doing a great job of solidifying the anti-US imperialism alliance.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Moscow and Tehran have agreed to strengthen military and technological cooperation as the Russian Deputy PM visited Iran following the latest round of US sanctions.<\/p>\n

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has met Iranian government officials during his visit to the country on Saturday. Rogozin leads the Russian delegation invited to the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who was reelected in May.<\/p>\n

Rogozin held talks with Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan. The officials reportedly discussed new supplies of Russian arms to Iran. They agreed upon the implementation of deals boosting military and technological cooperation, according to Fars news agency.<\/p>\n

The move comes just three days after the US decision to impose a new round of sanctions against Russia and Iran, along with North Korea. The \u2018Countering America\u2019s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act\u2019 was overwhelmingly approved by American lawmakers at the end of July and signed by Trump on Wednesday. The US leader himself said that the \u201clegislation is significantly flawed\u201d and warned that it puts \u201cUS-Russia relations at all-time & dangerous low.\u201d<\/p>\n

The move triggered a strong response from all subjects of the newly introduced economic restrictions, as well as concerns from the US\u2019 European allies.<\/p>\n

Moscow considers the bill \u201ca full-fledged economic war on Russia,\u201d according to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. He also called the legislation a \u201chumiliating defeat\u201d for Trump, which leaves no room for improving bilateral ties.<\/p>\n

Russia promised retaliatory measures even before the bill was officially signed by Trump. Following congressional approval, Russia decided to reduce the number of US diplomatic staff in Russia to 455, and suspend the use of embassy storage facilities, warning that more restrictions may come.<\/p>\n

Iran slammed the measures as a violation of the 2015 nuclear deal, promising to \u201cshow an appropriate and proportional reaction\u201d to America\u2019s \u201chostile\u201d act. Tehran also blamed Washington for attempting to curb foreign investment in the Iranian economy.<\/p>\n

Several European government officials said the US law would harm their national interests, as the restrictive measures would target European companies taking part in Russian-EU energy projects, including the Nordstream II pipeline.<\/p>\n

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel criticized the restrictive measures as \u201cdiametrically opposed to the interests of Germany and the EU.\u201d Earlier, German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries called on the European Commission \u201cto look into countermeasures\u201d against the \u201cillegal\u201d sanctions.<\/p>\n

The Austrian chancellor also slammed the move, calling it \u201cabsolutely unacceptable.\u201d France voiced its opposition to the sanctions, saying they target companies beyond US jurisdiction and violate international law.<\/p>\n

The EU vowed to defend its economic interests and issue an \u201cadequate\u201d response if the sanctions on Russia hurt the interests of European companies working with Russia, according to European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/398735-russia-iran-military-cooperation\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The US is doing a great job of solidify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":284730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}