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Putin tells Tehran: Russia stands by Iran

MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Iranian leaders on Nowruz and said Moscow remained a loyal friend and reliable partner to Tehran, the Kremlin said on ‌Saturday.

The extent of Moscow's support for Iran, though, is in dispute. Some Iranian sources have said that they have had little real help from Moscow in the biggest crisis for Iran since the U.S.-backed Shah was toppled in the 1979 revolution.

Putin sent congratulations to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah ⁠Mojtaba Khamenei and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the Iranian new year, the Kremlin said.

"Vladimir Putin wished the Iranian people to overcome the harsh trials with dignity and stressed that in this difficult time Moscow remains a loyal friend and reliable partner of Tehran," the Kremlin said.

Russia says the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have thrust the entire Middle East into the abyss and triggered a major global energy crisis, while Putin condemned the killing of Iranian Supreme ‌Leader as a "cynical" murder.

Politico reported, opens new tab that Moscow proposed a quid pro quo to Washington: the Kremlin would stop sharing intelligence with Iran if Washington ceased supplying Ukraine with intelligence about Russia, but the United States rejected the idea. The Kremlin has ⁠dismissed the report as fake.

Russia was deprived of an ally when the United States toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, though Moscow has benefited from the high oil prices triggered ⁠by the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, a strategic partner.

The published strategic partnership does not contain a mutual defence clause, and Russia has repeatedly ⁠said that it does not want Iran to develop an atomic bomb, a step that Moscow fears would trigger a nuclear arms race across the Middle East.

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Eid al-Fitr prayer held in Iran pic.twitter.com/bPR9TunWlb

— Tehran Times (@TehranTimes79) March 21, 2026

Galactics:
Russia has no option than to stand with the terrorist Iran.

FreeStuffsNG:
The terrorists are those who murdered 168 innocent Iranian school girls. If you stand with and praise murderers of those children, God will judge you all accordingly.

Adieu to these angels murdered violently in their school on the orders of Trump to dump tonnes of bombs on their school

mynd1:
Putin my Man... Him no they too talk but when he does, the World shivers.

mynd1:
Putin my Man... Him no they too talk but when he does, the World shivers.

FreeStuffsNG:
The terrorists are those who murdered 168 innocent Iranian school girls. If you stand with and praise murderers of those children, God will judge you all accordingly.

Adieu to these angels murdered violently in their school on the orders of Trump to dump tonnes of bombs on their school

orikoku:
Something big is about to happen in the world 🌎. Brace up brethren.

saddler:
Hypocrisy!

Its been four years of Invading Ukraine and yet you still can't win.

saddler:
Hypocrisy!

Its been four years of Invading Ukraine and yet you still can't win.

saddler:
Hypocrisy!

Its been four years of Invading Ukraine and yet you still can't win.

CyynthiaKiss:
Standing with them for mouth ..

Keep giving them false hope..

CyynthiaKiss:
Standing with them for mouth ..

Keep giving them false hope..

2RightHands1Coc:
Iran gave them lots of drones to execute Thier war in Ukraine so what do you expect. Pro Iranians are just like a drowning man , grasping at straws for survival. A regime that killed 6k plus of its own citizens during protest's months ago


Iran is winning in Nairaland though.

mynd1:
Don't mind that non sense guy and his fellow fanatics Christians who doesn't see anything wrong with USA and Israel. To them,everything is about religion and anyone who's not thinking same with them is a terrorist symperthizer. Awon Weres mtcheew.