I suspect Trump and Putin reached a secret deal. Putin must publicly support Iran, so he can’t come out and just say he’s thrown them under the bus.
Bingo. Man, Trump is always 3 steps ahead of everyone.
“Putin must publicly support Iran” with lip service, which no one pays any attention to, because the russkies are pretty much impotent on the world stage after dashing their country to pieces against the pathetic brick wall of ukraine, which would be the SECOND war the russkies have lost against an apparently inferior opponent as was the case earlier with Afghanistan ...