Putin forging a pariah state alliance a graver threat than Soviet bloc

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : MenaceTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi meet before a summit of leaders from the guarantor states of the Astana process, designed to find a peace settlement in the Syrian conflict, in Tehran, Iran on July 19And the Tehran summit this week, Vladimir Putin's showy embrace of Iran and Turkey, is proof that he is re-orientating Russia for the long haul -- not just in his lifetime but for his successors.
48% : We underestimate the strength of their shared ideologies at our peril: while Turkey may stand on a different side of the fence to Russia and Iran when it comes to the conflict in Syria -- Russia and Iran are united in backing the Assad regime in Syria while Turkey backs those who rebel against it -- all three nations are united in opposition to the country's pro-American Kurds.
47% : Today there are fears that Putin is doubling down, and is now intent on turning his own nation -- with a vast nuclear arsenal already in place -- into another mega-Iran as far as the West is concerned.
46% : Apart from sharing common enemies in the West, Russia and Iran are developing co-operation in military technology (U.S. intelligence has warned that Russia is seeking hundreds of Iranian drones to deploy in Ukraine) and in their gas and oil industries.
43% : Then Putin invaded Ukraine, was hit hard hit by sanctions -- Russia has overtaken Iran as the world's most sanctioned economy -- and suddenly all bets were off.
41% : His meeting with hardline Iranian leaders in Tehran this week, along with another guest, Turkey's President Erdogan, was ostensibly to discuss Syria.
41% : Today, the threat has changed, and comes in the form of a permanently outlawed Russia, a vast Eurasian state in partnership with China, Iran and other pariah states -- a threat that looms large across the entire Northern hemisphere.
40% : Not only would Moscow's support for the ayatollahs have damaged Russia's economic relationship with the West, but it has overlapping regional interests with Iran, too.
39% :Russia has just signed a huge oil development deal with Iran, while simultaneously reactivating the transport routes between the two nations -- ironically created by the Americans to send aid to Stalin against Nazi Germany -- which have been largely redundant since the end of World War II.
37% : Iran is a pariah state for America, Britain and their allies.
37% : Speaking to reporters, he emphasised that a 'trusting dialogue' has developed between Russia and Iran, stating that 'on most issues, our positions are close or identical'.
22% : Just days after President Joe Biden visited Israel and Saudi Arabia and vowed the U.S. was prepared to use 'all elements of its national power' to stop a common enemy, Iran, from acquiring nuclear weapons, who should turn up in the Iranian capital?
22% : Just days after President Joe Biden visited Israel and Saudi Arabia and vowed the U.S. was prepared to use 'all elements of its national power' to stop a common enemy, Iran, from acquiring nuclear weapons, who should turn up in the Iranian capital?

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