Bashar al-Assad, Nicolas Maduro and now Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the last 18 months, Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost several key foreign allies — and there is little that the Kremlin, bogged down in Ukraine, can do about it.
Tehran has stood by as one of Russia’s closest backers throughout Moscow’s four-year offensive and the Kremlin had earlier called for restraint amid reports of imminent US military action in Iran.
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