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Thescrutinyng:
Last week’s statement by Lagos-based church House on The Rock is very ludicrous, hilarious and a clear assault on the sensibilities of discerning Nigerians. The senior pastor of the church, Paul Adefarasin, was recently invited for questioning by the police over a viral video in which he pointed an object that many believed was a firearm at a content creator who is popular for filming luxury cars and sharing the footage on his platforms. Many Nigerians demanded a probe of the incident, as there was a huge debate on what Adefarasin, who was the convener and host of ‘The Experience’ gospel concert, pointed at the unarmed civilian. While many claimed it was a gun, some said it was torchlight; others said it was a taser.

Adefarasin promised to address the incident during the Sunday service, but rather than do so, the highly respected cleric chose to play the victim. Describing the incident as both hurtful and malicious, he said he felt hurt and shocked when he learnt of the online controversy surrounding the video. While denying that he neither owned a firearm nor pointed any such item at anyone, he attributed the false allegations to “clickbaiters” seeking financial gain. To crown it all, he said his church doesn’t dignify hate speech or false accusations, and with this statement, he considers the matter settled.

He said, “The enticement of the enemy is always the love of money and the root of all evil. What we have had to witness is clickbaiters just looking for more money. I probably wasn’t even their target. Their target was to make more money. And I was falsely accused of bearing a firearm and pointing a firearm at an aggressive content creator who came within personal distance.”

“The only thing separating me and him was about maybe three-quarters of a metre and glass. I do not have a pistol licence for a firearm. I do not carry a firearm. And I pointed no firearm at anybody. Amen. And it’s our policy not to dignify hate speech or false accusations. We believe that God is bigger than that. And we believe in what is said in Romans 12 and verse 19. And it was unique because it came home on a Saturday when I observe the Sabbath. Because it’s a great time for me. I don’t make a huge law out of Sabbath, but I believe in the principle of Sabbath. And unfortunately, several people called me and sent me many videos. I was shocked".

I’ll be candid with you. I was shocked. I was hurt. I am human. But God is touched with the feeling of our infirmities and is able to first give us succour. And what the enemy means for evil, he works for good. On that note, I will lay that matter to rest.”

Rather than lay the matter to rest, many Gen Z netizens kept asking questions and asking the police to investigate the incident. Yes, agreed, you did not point a firearm at anybody. The question is, what object were you holding? That was the major question the pastor could have addressed while providing clarity on the matter. By not telling Nigerians, the object pointed at the content creator; all your explanations are simply fatuous. It would have been better if the pastor had kept quiet rather than offering an explanation which did not answer the question many demanded an answer to: what object were you holding?

Nigeria’s primary law enforcement agency, the police, decided to step in. The Lagos state police command invited Pastor Adefarasin, and he turned himself in as a law-abiding and responsible citizen. In a statement posted on the police X handle, it said the object seen in the viral video was not a firearm but a stun gun, which is classified as prohibited anti-riot equipment.

The statement said, “Pastor Paul Adefarasin, who turned himself in today at the Lagos State Police Command over a viral video where he was seen holding a gun-like object against another road user, was interrogated, and he volunteered a cautionary statement to the police investigators. What was recovered from him, the gun-like object seen in the viral video, is not a lethal weapon or firearm but a stun gun, which is a prohibited anti-riot equipment. The pastor has been granted bail while investigations continue into the case.”

The church, however, faulted the police statement and even tried to educate the country’s law enforcement agents on what constitutes an offence or not. The full statement by the church’s media department reads, “We are grateful to everyone who has expressed concern following Pastor Paul Adefarasin’s voluntary attendance at the Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday, 17 June 2025.

“Pastor Paul was detained for several hours and released without charge. During that time, an official police tweet mislabelled his strobe-light stinger—also known as a stun gun—as “prohibited anti-riot equipment”. Leading Nigerian lawyers advise that this description is incorrect in law. Pastor Paul continues to cooperate fully with the police investigation and is confident that, once the facts are reviewed, he will be exonerated of the allegation arising from the viral video. We hold the police in high esteem and trust they will strive to act courteously and professionally, in the interest of all, while upholding the laws of the land.”

The church said, “Leading Nigerian lawyers advise that a stun gun is not a prohibited anti-riot equipment.” Who are these faceless senior lawyers who know more than our security agents and are trying to educate them? Honestly, we play too much in this country.

Even in an advanced country like the United Kingdom, a stun gun is deemed illegal? To fact-check, I googled, ‘Is a stun gun legal in the UK? The response I got was, “No, stun guns are illegal in the UK. They are classified as prohibited weapons under the Firearms Act 1968 and are considered dangerous due to the high-voltage electricity they discharge. Possession, purchase, or import of stun guns without lawful authority can result in severe penalties, including imprisonment and fines.”

Despite the church’s antics, Moshood Jimoh, the Lagos State police commissioner, insisted that Pastor Paul committed an offence the moment he pointed a stun gun at another individual, as his action constituted a violation of the Firearms Act.

By interrogating Pastor Paul, the police have done a great job, and they ought to be commended. Even if he was not detained, the fact that he was summoned and the stun gun recovered has doused the suspense the issue generated, as many Nigerians wanted to know the object the cleric pointed at the harmless content creator whose major offence was filming a car. We are humans, and nobody is immune to making mistakes.

I think Pastor Paul, a man I had tremendous respect for, should submit himself for counselling on anger management. No one is too big to learn. In December 2023, the pastor allegedly smashed the window of a bus driver who hit his car and injured passengers in the bus. Neither the pastor nor the church made any statement on that particular incident.

A laissez-faire country, where people can behave however they want without recourse to the law, is dangerous for all. It doesn’t speak well of the country when foreigners are reading that two distribution companies in Lagos (Ikeja Electric and Eko Disco) were attacked by men in military uniforms, inflicting injuries on civilians doing their lawful duties simply because they were disconnected from having electricity supply over unpaid debt.

As responsible citizens, we should learn to abide by the law at all times. That is how saner climes where we all desire to ‘japa’ work. Many Nigerians who are reckless drivers here and who usually drive without insurance or a licence know they can’t try it in the UK. They know the full weight of the law will be brought on them if caught, no matter their status in society. In January 2023, the immediate Prime Minister of the UK, Rishi Sunak, was fined for not wearing a seatbelt while sitting at the back of a car. Sunak fully accepted that it was a mistake. He apologised and paid the fine. Who will fine a state governor in Nigeria for not using a seatbelt?

The other day, a former governor who is now a serving senator, Adams Oshiomhole, was accused of blocking the terminal gate of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), domestic wing in Lagos, after missing his Abuja-bound flight. The airline said he reportedly arrived at the airport by 6:20am for a flight that was to depart by 6:30am. When he was told that his flight had departed, he reportedly blocked the entrance, preventing other passengers from gaining entrance to the terminal. In a saner clime, that will be treated as an act of terrorism, but Nigeria is a country where anything goes. Oshiomhole also justified his action and accused Air Peace of institutional extortion. However, would he have done the same if the incident had happened at Nairobi or Cairo international airports?

https://www.thecable.ng/the-paul-adefarasin-saga-we-play-too-much-in-nigeria/

Akinsuyi, former group politics editor of Daily Independent, writes from the United Kingdom. He can be reached at shabydayo@gmail.com.

The problem is not about the pastor or the police, the problem is about you, but seem not to know you are the problem. Your hatred for anything pastor or Christianity is the one driving you crazy. The pastor has never committed any crime in Nigeria before now, and he did not even kill or shoot the jobless content creator that intruded into somebody privacy without asking for permission. Police have come out to say it was not a firearm, and he honoured police honourable without proving sturbbon or arrogant. What else do you want from a man that his privacy was intruded?

He has contributed to society better than you. If there is no well paying jobs for you to do in UK, it is better to come back to Nigeria to drive one of the tractors that Tinubu just bought for farming. I am sure farming will pay your UK bills better than your present job. If you want him going to jail for pointing non-firearm, what then will be the punishment of people that own firearms illegally or shoot someone? You are not making sense with this scrap, better remove bitterness from your heart

folorunshoadejo:
Why leave, why not stay and help resolve the issues rather than run to another party...

No Loyalty, as if where you are going to is good.

Fake people in leadership positions...

You don't need too much grammar! Go and join LP and resolve the problem for them and stay there for years so we can test your own level of loyalty to the party. You don't need to point fingers

And see how God works., the PRINCE Adewole Adebayo that had A1 in governance and even A1 in politics, God don't come choose him. He is only sidelined to wail and complain

Amitex:
What are their names and where are their pictures? When Edo killing happened we were imaundated with names, etc. Why is NPF being secretive here.

So, you don't read to understand or grammar is too big for you. They say the never finish arrest, you want names to be mentioned so that others can run away because their gang members have been arrested. You can also go to police station where they are kept to confirm and ask for their names

agulion:
You can't mention their names since it does not sound like the following names: Idowo, Yinka, Femi, Emeka, Uche etc, but if it was the other way round the police could have mentioned names

No, don't say that! Emeka can be there so far it involves money. Ipob are used to faking fulanis to kill Igbos because of ego and food, don't be surprised if you see one Emeka there

9japride:
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Which tribe are into skull mining and drugs related offence in the middle east? Hatred is not a good thing.
Celebrate with the Igbos.

That is not about hatred, but instruction to serve as a reminder. It has been long you heard about skull mining, those ones do turn for better and leave gaps before another one happens. However, that of illegal drugs is everyday, those ones are like goats; they no dey hear world. Just glue to your radio or internet today, you will see another biafrans ready to march to prison

Even the christians in Iran will support Isreal even though Islamic terrorists can not do without leaving there traces of criminality everywhere. Still give Iran sometimes, they will soon go to their vomits or still sponsor terrorism to attempt to attack isreal again.

Ofunaofu:
https://von.gov.ng/nidcom-boss-hails-north-carolinas-proclamation-of-igbo-day/

This is good. However, it will be better if July 10 every year can be sacred and remain crime and drug free day. No Igbo should be arrested in India or elsewhere for illegal drug or crime related. So, the day should be saved for good remembrance and crime free day. God will make it possible and the celebration will continue to achieve its target aim to avoid being abused

All glory be to God the creator of heaven and earth. He created humans on earth and put food in the land for humanity to survive. No matter how rich any country is, every human survival is from ground through agriculture and mining of resources God deposit and kept for human. He then gives human wisdom to develop tools to process them into different usages like money, ammunition, computer etc.

What a wonderful God, one of the lessons to learn, God did not Create human to come and suffer on earth, he had provided food and other resources of human survival. We are the ones mishandling and making uneven distribution of these resources to suffer ourself through maladministration. As God deposit all these for human created on earth, make sure you also keep resources and assets for your children you will bring to this world.

There is no need to bring children to these world to come and suffer when you yourself never gets your bearing for your life. And per adventure you are born poor, you don't need to blame your parents for your own failure, sons and daughters that their parents are worse than yours have survived and turned around poverty to wealth. Discipline yourself and work harder legitimately to break poverty in your lineage instead of busy abusing your parents.

LordBiden:
The objective of isreal failed as long as ayatollah is still alive.

I would have said they achieved their aims had it been they where able to install a friendly regime after removing Khomeini.

Arabs or Persians are stubborn people so dont expect them to just give up their arsenal easily.

Anytime you wake up for one month from today or you see ayatollah walking and talking; just be thanking USA and Nethayahu for purposely spared his life. Now, he has seen the bunker burster in effect; Israel bunker is even enough to send him to his master that married that 6years old girl. Now, he has learnt lesson to be humble, I expect him not to run his mouth like tap water again with hatred.

All the ammunition Iran depended ON to harm Isreal were seriously destroyed and couldn't use many. That is why when Iran just randomly hit Isrealis roofing sheets or corridors of empty house, Iran and sympathizers will jubiliate has if the have won. At the end of the day, no single isrealis soldier was killed, isrealis air force ceased iranian airspace for 12 days by just less than 200 isrealis air force, and believe me Iran 700,000 arm forces on paper had no answer.

If they like, they should go again to run their mouth like tap water or plan evil again to destroy Israel and US, Iranian people will always remind themselves of this funny 12 days war

MrHandsome2013:
A civil servant that started working when Nigeria was booming in 1970s.

He Worked 12 years being single before getting married.
That 12 years he worked was useless.

He didn’t marry his wife properly. No wedding pic of them as husband and wife.
No house of his own, no property,
No car , nothing.
What did he do with those 12 years.

Is it the remaining 23 years remaining to serve or retire , he will achieve anything being married with responsibilities.

This my unfortunate dad never achieved anything throughout his 35 years of working.
He was busy blaming his wife for putting him in chronic debt,
Now I sat down and began to think that this man was already a failure before he got married.
Because you have use 1/3 of your 35 years as a single man yet no single achievement.

Some men don’t deserve to married.
My dad is an evil man seriously speaking,
He knew he was a devil that has failed and instead of him to go to one seminary school.

He choose to go one village to deceive one illiterate girl to marry so they will bring innocent kid to suffer untold suffering.
Is this not pure witch crafts

Stop complaining! You are now in his shoe, change the narrative to better stories. You can be born poor, you can walk out of it through hardwork or remain there and keep complaining. Those with tories worse than yours have succeeded in life. Is there anybody who doesn't want to get those things? If it easy , start your own so that you will not hand over poverty to your own children too. Correct the wrongs.

Most times, salary is just for feeding especially as junior workers that don't even have access to loan. Don't hate your father or disrespect him the way you are doing, that way you are getting it wrong too. If himself inherited fortunes from his father, the story might be different today. But as it is, he tried without success. Break the poverty in your lineage through legitimate hardwork too, don't handover complaint to your own children too

Many are coming. Even today one Qatar food processing company came to Ogun state to setup new company. You can google the news or search in Nairaland here. You don't notice them because they refused to come to the land that ipob/ESN had spoilt with insecurity. Before they leave their countries to come to Nigeria, they work on authentic statistics and information and not ipob fabricated emergency statistics for mere audio purposes and noise making.

OLAADEGBU:
When you throw a stone into a pack of dogs the one who yelps the loudest is the one who got hit. Why are you always reacting?

I need to react so as to inform you that Tinubu has just bought about 9,000 tractors and other farm implements. You and the madam youtuber bloggers should get enlisted to be trained on how to use one or two of these farm tools so that you can be able go back to farm to cure joblessness of hiding behind blogging dependent on spoiling men of God to drive traffics for illegal mone making venture. Farming is more prestigious. There is dignity in farming

SlavaUkraini:
The South East now have a chance to produce a Vice President if Peter Obi will team up with Atiku Abubakar in the upcoming election....

Only that Alliance can defeat Jagaban

If Peter Obi contest alone, he will lose

If Atiku Abubakar contest alone, he will lose

When Atiku Abubakar is done with his Presidency, then Peter Obi can become president.

Just watch as Obidients will disagree with me on this..

Even if two of them combine together, they will still fail because their individual party strength has reduced. Where are the majority of house of rep members, governors and senators that used their platforms to get elected and secured huge vote for each party to secure 2nd and 3rd? They have almost decamped finish. Many of these that decamped from both parties are heavy weight and breadwinners.

LP can not win Lagos or Abuja again to carry success for Atiku in 2027; and PDP can not win south south again to carry success to LP for combined success because many SS have decamped and still decamping. El- rufai party can not even fly because they can't have enough to decamp to it before election. Atiku is only using that one as plan B in case primary never favours him in PDP in 2027. So, APC and Tinubu will still win with wide margin

Putindbutt:
As una leave Tinubu alone?. Una go use una hand scatter unaself.. No peace for the wicked.

So, it means based on your insinuation here; labour party is wicked which accounts for reason why LP members decamp due to lack of peace. Anyway, LP has scattered already

mrvitalis:
Nigerian don't have rockets that can strike sokoto from Lagos is who you want to compare to North Korea?

Do you know what promotion by lack of merit does to military?

Trust me Cameroon would overun Nigeria because millions of Nigerians would back Cameroon

At least we thank God that Nigeria army has very capability to defeat and banish IPOB and ESN from the land of rising terrorism. That alone is a serious achievement. That North Korean that Ukraine was killing like fowls while fighting for Russia by exposing themselves to international ridicule are not match to Nigeria army. North Korea, Russia, Iran were just only making mouth and boasting until they get ridiculed. ESN remains the most ridiculed biafra army, even before they possessed ordinary catapult; they were busy running mouth like tap water, and the worst part of it is that they majorly procure ammunition to kill only Igbos for igbos to remain first most embarrassing army of the world.

Imagine a thread of more than a year, yet sensible people ignore it because they see the thread, the poster and caller as serial jokers. Self posting is more than the contribution from people, they know video series 1,2, till no end in sight is just an avenue for jobless youtubers

LZAA:
TWELVE MOST FOOLISH PEOPLE.

(1) Jobless persons supporting people that are behind their joblessness.

(2) A student who is on strike and still raising banner for those who are behind the strike.

(3) A father who can no longer feed the family and is still running around like a fool under the sun supporting the people that brought the poverty upon him and his family.

(4) Youths who support the killers that ordered the killing of their own fellow youths.

(5) A homeless person supporting the people who brought inflation that has made him jobless and homeless.

(6) People living without electricity and still raising banner and asking people to support the evil men that are behind lack and failure of electricity in the country.

(7) People that cannot travel to their home because of bad roads but are still campaigning and and asking other people to join them to support people that looted the money meant for the construction of roads to their homes.

( People that couldn't sleep because of killing, kidnaping and banditry, yet supporting the founders of terrorism in the nation.

(9) People that do not even have clean water to drink, but still planning to vote into power people who looted the money meant for water.

(10) People buying fuel at N950 instead of N80, yet still supporting the evil men stealing our crude and refusing to build refineries that has brought us to where we are today.

(11) People supporting others because of religion, ethnicity, or tribe and forget competence, capacity and track record.

(12) People supporting others because of food on the table and stomach infrastructure forgetting the future.

CHOOSE YOUR FOOLISHNESS FROM THE TWELVE NOW, OR ABANDON THEM IMMEDIATELY TO THINK, AND VOTE WISELY IN 2027.

Even somebody that gets time to write this is chief of what he calls others

seunoyeleyep:
Since 2023. This has got to be the most useless president on earth.


APC ronus, come and cry on this.

Nnenna, because farming job is ready now, lazy youths are complaining looking for unnecessary excuses. So, that you will not keep seeing uselessness, that is why farming implement are here for you. Wear your cloth, drop your phone at home and go and enrol to det trained on how to use one of the farm equipment. Enough of complaint! Go to farm now

[quote author= post=135863719]Solve the insecurity issues first, abi na the herdsmen go use the equipments.[/quote]You are the one shouting everywhere that you are hungry. Now, food solution is here, you are shouting insecurity. Did they tell you they are not fighting insecurity? This is government farm, security will be provided. Also, you don't be lazy looking for excuses not to get trained on how to get one of those equipment for farming, don't come here with excuses. This is now practical, and not online farming. Drop your phone, and go to farm from next week

360degreess:
Trump the coward and comedian ..I don't know how to express my joy for the love of the powerful and courageous Iran for dealing mercilessly with the Jews terrorist state and also their Masters US .. Imagine Iran making Tell Aviv and Haifa looked exactly like Gaza using their powerful Missle.imagine if this war last had lasted for months?Iran has made Israel paid for the price of what they did to innocent women and children in Gaza..Trump finally got scared .He doesn't want Iran to destroy all their military bases in the middle East..

Iran doesn't want to turn to Gaza and Iran supreme leader wants to leave for more years. Less than 200 Isreali airforces held and pinned down Iran airspace for 12 days and 700,000 Iranian armies are no where to be found. All their stock-piled ammunition they depended on for years using for mere boasting and threatening were destroyed by IDF. Iran only have blowing off roofing sheets and corridors of empty houses to celebrate about.

Now, they have seen that Iranian leader is not even safe in his bunker, if they wanted to kill him; it would have been easy with bunker burster. I thank Iran for finding humility and courage to submit for war to end because it is difficult to achieve in the first place. However, based on history; followers of the that old man that married 6years old girl are usually sturborn and may still go back to their vomit to cause more troubles.

God bless Israel, God bless US, God bless Nigeria, God bless me in Nigeria and God bless the world. If we can only follow the life and Word of Jesus Christ, this world would have been so peaceful, but no; people will not follow that because they love darkness more than light. Instead, they will follow that man that said, don't be friends with Jews and Christians....

Support get level, mourning with Iran by Russia is still another form of support. Russia knows the kind of support that will not pass its boundary against US or Isreal. When North Korea promised support to Russia by giving Russia kindergarten armies that had not practiced reality for centuries due to their isolation ideologies, Russia was happy until north Korea millitary exposed their own weaknesses. Iran was some months ago making mouth against US and Isreal, only to find out they were light weight.

All these ranking no the work in reality, it is only good for paper show. Iran with about 700000 army base pinned down by isreali since more than a week ago. Just less than 200 air force hijacked their airspace for more than a week now, and Iran with only mouth can only dance to blowing off Isreali roofing sheets and corridor of empty buildings. Now all the Iranian stocked piled ammunition used for paper rating are burnt down by isreal super fire power, then remain toothless dog since then practically panting inside bunkers that US and Isreal don't want to burst.

These Iranian people and terrorist sturbboness will always lead to their downfall. They now open doors for US and Isreali to turn them to Gaza instead of using the opportunity given to them to turn event around for further peace. This is why they are different from Jesus' followers that Jesus taught about humility and peace.

franchasng:
Keep wasting your precious time focusing on Peter Obi and Anambra while the North finalize their plans to kick your paymaster out of Aso Rock come 2027.


If you know how many Anambra people in the US alone that are professors, you will throw this junk stat to the waste bin where it belongs.


This very statistics is wrong, completely wrong because I know at least 10 Professors from Anambra personally, so shift, no need for argument.

Nzogbu, Nzogbu obidient way of response is never the best.The best way to argue a point like this to prove him wrong is to list those 10 professors you know and their states of origin with references to their state of origin. People will do the rest by verifying those names. It might be possible those you know come from another states. Anambra is known for businesses both legal and illegal; interest in higher education falls as you move up the ladder of academic pinnacle

madridguy:
This is what the US has brought upon Syrians. Under Bashar Al-Assaad, both Muslims and Christians are living together as brothers and sisters in peace and harmony.

So, it means in your thinking now, the only way islam can pay back is through terrorism, right? It means you agree they are Serial incurable terrorists that shouldn't be pity by isreali and US

Dreal1247:
When real voting starts or true electoral results begin to be announced in Nigeria, many politicians will just be automatically retired. These ones are busy aligning with the center for manipulative political relevance.

Those that will retire are same serial loosers from PDP and LP because they are used to defeat every four years cycle. Those that have seen the handwriting are decamping fast

Kastonkastroll:
They should start by amending that part that created a bi-camera system of governance for us. The system is too expensive for a developing country to maintain and in reality a waste of time. Either the senate or Reps should be scrapped.

But I will prefer the senate to be scrapped!!!

See date and zone venue now; no committee sits on Nairaland to hear you. If you don't go there to raise your voice, don't come back to Nairaland to disturb our hear with cho, cho, cho again o

Goog advice even though I never watched. Tell them also not to carry drugs to further spoil Nigeria name. They should remember the sons and daughters of whom they are back in Nigeria

Igboeblie:
The unprecedented bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the American president Trump took the world by surprise.The Chinese president Xi jinping and his counterpart Russian president Putin called Trump unpredictably.https://youtube.com/shorts/CY8NJBZr-_k?si=hzJ3cD4Pr9VJ3bYb

What else can they do than calling him unpredictable?They can only bark, they can not bite him.

malali:
They want to shut it down, let all those government feel it.

This is where the real war starts, America has been getting cheap energy(crude oil and LNG) for awhile

The likes of Russia, Iran,Iraq,Saudi,Nigeria etc have been dealing with low revenue to finance their budgets.

Iran is seeking advice from Russia. The only way they could stick it to the USA is to shut the strait of Hormuz down.

2 Major things will happen.
1-Oil prices will skyrocket, guesstimated to reach $130-$150 a barrel. Russia,Iraq,Saudi,Qatar etc will experience a windfall. The money will boost all of the middle east economy despite the bombs.

2nd- Americans will start blaming trump for starting a war once gas (petrol) prices go up. American economy relies on cheap petrol prices. If petrol is too expensive some jobs are not even worth going to, especially minimum wage jobs, inflation would surge, The federal reserve would have to hike rates, Trump economy might falter and have to start paying stimulus.Some crazy democrats will start the motion to impeach trump,if life gets too hard on Americans.

Russia will protect Iran with all their might, because that's the only way people will buy more of Russian Oil, if there is scarcity. Russia's Oil and Nigerian are the biggest producers that do not traffic through the strait of Hormuz.

Russia that never protects herself will protect Iran, right? Small Ukraine is taking Russia forever to defeat, is it Isreal or USA they will like to face to protect iran