Grim words, but possible. The Russkies have had their eye on that little part of the world for over 100 years. I think there is coming a time when Moscow will have to see about defusing the bomb that is Iran. Russia seeks to rebuild their influence worldwide, but Iran is one of the areas that is near and dear to their geopolitical interests. They are far more pragmatic than the current US administration regarding what they wish to accomplish geopolitically. nover The same cannot be said for the Twelver imams that run Iran. On one hand, they’d like to control the religious leaders, but even the imam’s can’t control the population anymore. They may have acknowledged that there’s going to be a turnover within the government, and it is important to decide where they’ll be standing when that event occurs.
Though I think a regime change in Iran is the more likely scenario, the retention of the Twelver’s will be nothing but a problem in the area. These guys believe nukes can be military weapons, rather than the reality of using them as poolitial tools as they have been over the last 60 years. Given Israel’s stockpile of nukes, it would be foolhardy to threaten them with a couple of Iranian “lab nukes”.
I think there is coming a time when Moscow will have to see about defusing the bomb that is Iran.
It's already happened in minature, Russian Marines frantically labored to police weapons of mass destruction it sold to Iraqi in 2003, they convoyed those weapons over the border and husbanded them into caves and underground storage shelters in the Bekka Valley.