“Who is in greater financial difficulty? I’d say Western countries are”
You are missing a big factor. The Iran GDP is boosted by wartime spending. Those products have gone up in smoke.
The wealth fund has been drained. The gravy train has ended.
But keep up the Russian propaganda.
You are missing a big factor. Russia is the largest commodity supplier on earth. Russia has valuable assets it can leverage. Western countries generally do not have that and they have debts that vastly exceed Russia's. The only propaganda here is what you're spewing.