Russia And Iran Are No Longer Separable | Speaking In Solidarity With the Brave Dissidents in Iran

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Volume 14, Issue 87

“We were apparently mistaken in thinking that racist, religious hatred of Jews and Israel was a thing of the past. It saddens us to discover time and time again that under the thin veneer of the EU’s civility and manners and the seeming concern for human rights, the same old blood libels can be found, along with the same flames of primitive hatred that seek this time to persecute – not the individual Jew, but the tiny Jewish state.”

----Letter sent by 40 Members of Knesset to European Union Leaders who have Outlined a Strategy for the Palestinians to Expand their Presence in Area C

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This Week's Featured Article
Russia And Iran Are No Longer Separable
By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour | December 22, 2022
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The increasing cooperation and arms transfers from Tehran to Moscow do not show any sign of reversing their course. Both embattled and isolated states drew closer together, reversing established patterns of superpower relationships and cementing their anti-US axis as the core component of their mutual understanding. This shows that Tehran and Moscow are no longer separable in a way that might enhance the political survival of both.

Months after Iran started providing Russia with precision-guided munitions and drones for the war in Ukraine, the arms flow is starting to go in the other direction.

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As Russia executes its immoral war against Ukraine, it has become apparent that over 300 of the drones that the Russian army has used to rain down over the Ukrainian civilian and military infrastructures have been manufactured in Iran and sold to Moscow. We also have learned that the Iranians are now manufacturing drones on Russian soil. Just this week, National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said that the relationship between Iran and Russia is developing into a “full-grown partnership.” He added that “the support is flowing both ways”, and that Moscow offers “an unprecedented level of military and technical support” including collaborating between the two nations “on areas like weapons development and training.” There is also a growing concern that “Russia is providing Iran with advanced military components”, which could include highly sophisticated air missile defense systems such as the Russian S-400, which is considered the most capable air missile defense system yet invented.

As these two adversaries to US national security interests develop deeper partnerships, this can only empower them and increase their appetite for war, threatening to destabilize the entire Middle East and of course, posing an existential threat to the state of Israel.

About the Speaker: Dr. Stephen J. Blank is Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He has published over 900 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian, U.S., Asian, and European military and foreign policies, testified frequently before Congress on Russia, China, and Central Asia, consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency, major think tanks and foundations, chaired major international conferences in the U.S. and in Florence; Prague; and London, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the U.S. and abroad.

Blank has advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. He has published or edited 15 books, most recently Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command (London: Global Markets Briefing, 2006). He has also published Natural Allies. Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005).

He is currently completing a book entitled Light From the East: Russia’s Quest for Great Power Status in Asia to be published in 2014 by Ashgate. Dr. Blank is also the author of The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin’s Commissariat of Nationalities (Greenwood, 1994); and the co-editor of The Soviet Military and the Future (Greenwood, 1992)
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Speaking In Solidarity With the Brave Dissidents in Iran
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As we write these words, every single one of Iran’s 33 provinces and over 100 of the Islamic Republic’s cities has seen their streets roiling over in protests against their repressively brutal tyranny. Approximately 18,000 Iranian dissidents have been rounded up and imprisoned, and approximately 500 have been randomly shot or otherwise killed in the streets during the protests, including 58 children 16 years of age and below. Two people have already been hung, and the regime is planning to execute several more.

Yet, these courageous protesters are not discouraged. The regime’s venality has not deterred them, one iota, but has had a paradoxical effect and they have somehow summoned up the courage to keep continuing in their valiant struggle for freedom from this suffocating theocracy.

What’s propelling them to continue on in the face of the possibility that they might be shot on the spot, rounded up to be tortured or raped in a notorious Iranian prison, or even face execution by hanging? Will the momentum continue? Does this signal the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic? Here to answer these questions and more is Navid Mohebbi, who himself was imprisoned and beaten up by the Iranian thugs.

About the Speaker: Navid Mohebbi is NUFDI’s Advocacy Director and a long-time democracy advocate and a former political prisoner in Iran. He has written extensively on Iran’s political and social affairs both in Persian and English and worked with many civil society organizations in Iran on a range of political, human rights, and women’s rights issues.

Navid is responsible for designing and implementing strategies to advance NUFDI’s mission and policy goals and is tasked with building relationships with key policymakers and grassroots organizations. He also leads NUFDI’s strategic growth initiatives while contributing to overall policy.

Navid was born and raised in Iran. He holds a BA in international relations and Middle Eastern studies from George Washington University, and an MA in Security Studies from the University of Massachusetts.

Navid regularly advises the U.S. government on Iran policy and is a regular contributor to Persian and English language media outlets. His articles have appeared in Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Radio Free Europe, etc. Before joining NUFDI, Navid worked as a media analyst for the U.S. State Department. He also completed a DOD-funded program where he researched the impact of climate change on political stability in Iran for the Federal Division of the Library of Congress.
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** Iran protesters 'too scared to go to hospital' ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - BBC
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** Iran asking Russia to sell military ships, help build new designs: Israeli sources ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Breaking Defense
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** Iranian atomic official says uranium enrichment capacity hits record highs ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** More Iranians face possible execution as authorities seek to crush continuing unrest ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - NPR
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** Report: Israel targeted secret Hezbollah drone site in Syria strike this week ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** 40 MKs protest EU animosity following revelation of Area C document ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** Netanyahu accuses NY Times of ‘demonizing Israel for decades’ ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** Terror victims sue Biden administration for funding Palestinian Authority ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** Palestinians call for escalation, protest death of terrorist in Israeli prison ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** EU working with PA to take over Area C, document obtained by JNS shows ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** Chile president says he’s planning to open embassy ‘in Palestine’ ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** Iranian arms transfers through Beirut airport could ignite the Middle East ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - The Hill
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** Why Saudis Don’t Want to Pivot to China ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) -Foreign Policy
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** US and Iran clash over Russia using Iran drones in Ukraine ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - AP News
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** CIA head: Russia looking to support Iran, posing threat to US allies in Middle East ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** EU tells Iran to halt repression, support for Russia ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Reuters
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** Union chief resigns following Qatar-EU corruption probe ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Middle East Eye
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** U.S. issues new sanctions on Iran after execution of 2 protesters ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Politico
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** Biden in newly surfaced video: Iran nuclear deal is "dead" ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Axios
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** House GOP group vowing retribution on pro-omnibus Republicans grows ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - The Hill
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** Biden can exploit a Russia-China split to hurt Iran and help our Mideast strategy ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - The Hill
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** Son of Biden’s Iran Envoy Works for ‘Iran Lobby’ ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7697062b11&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Front Page Magazine
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