Maybe Iran has already dumped them for China. Iran is at least playing them against each other. China’s path through the ‘Khans’ is also pressuring Russia.
Russia would like to be in a stronger negotiating position with China.
But slowing construction of pipelines through Syria is all I see them getting near term. If they want to calve Turkey from NATO more power to them.
Comity with the US is a very valuable thing in this world.
Especially when you have Iran and China at your back door.
One would have to have been born yesterday to automatically believe everything that comes out of the Kremlin-controlled media.
...then again, I’ve always figured Russia was just using Iran to advance their own evil agenda. Putin’s goal is to basically restore the Soviet Union. Only this time it will include valuable territories in the oil and gas-rich Middle East.