'Big Three' WWII-theme memorial photo kicks up storm in Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : An online photo of the Russian and British ambassadors to Tehran commemorating a historic meeting of allied leaders during World War II sparked a diplomatic row on Thursday in Iran, which had been invaded by the two powers during the period.
51% : TEHRAN, Iran (AP) --
49% : August marks the 80th anniversary of the campaign, when Soviet and British armored divisions swept in largely unopposed to secure oil fields and Russian supply lines through Iran, officially neutral but considered pro-Germany at the time.
49% : They have also increased military cooperation, and Russia delivered hundreds of thousand vaccines to Iran to fight COVID-19.
48% : Tehran and Moscow have improved their relations in recent decades after Russia built Iran's sole nuclear power plant in southern Iranian port of Bushehr.
31% : Iran's outgoing foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, called the photo "inappropriate," given that Russia and Britain had invaded Iran in 1941.

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