points duly noted. perhaps i read too much into “alliance.”
After the post, I wondered just how good a Russian customer Iran is.
Per the CIA fact book
Netherlands 10.8%, Italy 8%, Germany 7.8%, Turkey 5.9%, Ukraine 5.4%, China 4.5%, Poland 4.4% (2008)
I couldn’t separate out oil and gas and that might move Iran up on the list