Russia and Iran... a strategic partnership that is being boosted by US sanctions on both sides

BERLIN: Russian-Iranian relations have gone through volatile historical stages, convergence and divergence due to ideological and geostrategic considerations, before they became what they are today of partnership and semi-alliance. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, Iran and the Soviet Union shared a long border in a period marred by tense relations between the two countries due to the loyalty of the Shah of Iran to the Western camp during the Cold War.
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With the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution in the year 79, bilateral relations temporarily recovered, as Tehran began to break out of the mantle of its previous alliances with the West. However, relations quickly deteriorated again due to the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war and Moscow's siding with Baghdad and supporting it with weapons throughout the eight years of the war. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, a bear The warmth between Russia this time and Iran, and the view of the Caspian Sea replaced the common borders, 

which became the borders of the heir countries of the Soviet Union. In many files, regionally and internationally, the most prominent of which was the agreement of the two countries in the year two thousand and eleven to support the Assad regime in the face of the revolution of the Syrian people.