Russia helps Iran launch a satellite, a sign of closer cooperation.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : A Soyuz rocket carrying the "Khayyam" satellite into orbit lifted off from the Russian-run Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan just before 9 a.m."The successful launch of the satellite in the interests and on the order of Iran has become an important milestone in Russian-Iranian bilateral cooperation, opening the way to the implementation of new and even larger projects," Yury Borisov, the director general of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said in a statement.
48% : Russia has been seeking closer alliances, including with Iran, since its invasion of Ukraine has left it isolated from many Western countries.
46% : Iran has long experience with evading Western sanctions, and the U.S. says it has offered to sell Russia drones for use in Ukraine and other equipment using technology that Western nations are no longer selling to Moscow.
41% : Although negotiations regarding the launch preceded Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it comes less than a month after President Vladimir V. Putin visited Tehran in his quest to show that Western sanctions imposed over the war had failed to isolate his country.
38% :Iran said in a statement that the satellite would not be used for military applications, as some news media reports have suggested.

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