Most of Iran's weapons before the Islamic revolution were imported from the United States and Europe. The United States continued to sell large amounts of weapons to Iran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In late 2001, Russia signed an arms deal for ten years with Iran that supplied conventional military equipment. The United States did not pressure Russia to stop selling weaponry to Iran because it was defensive weaponry and followed international law, and both Russia and Iran supported the United States’ global war on terrorism in the aftermath of September 11. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, plus the United States’ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), opened the opportunity for increased cooperation between the two countries. In 2023, Iran signed a new bilateral trade agreement with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union with the intent of entering into a new arms deal with Russia for more military and technological cooperation.
Iran and Russia’s trade and diplomatic relations result from a larger geopolitical and economic objective. Iran and Russia aim to remove or diminish the U.S.-led world order and create a multipolar world. In 2022, Mahmoud Abbaszadeh-Meshkini, spokesman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian parliament, said, “In the new world order, a triangle consisting of three powers – Iran, Russia, and China – has formed in Asia. This new arrangement heralds the end of the inequitable hegemony of the United States and the West.”
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Most of Iran's weapons before the Islamic revolution were imported from the United States and Europe. The United States continued to sell large amounts of weapons to Iran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In late 2001, Russia signed an arms deal for ten years with Iran that supplied conventional military equipment. The United States did not pressure Russia to stop selling weaponry to Iran because it was defensive weaponry and followed international law, and both Russia and Iran supported the United States’ global war on terrorism in the aftermath of September 11. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, plus the United States’ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), opened the opportunity for increased cooperation between the two countries. In 2023, Iran signed a new bilateral trade agreement with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union with the intent of entering into a new arms deal with Russia for more military and technological cooperation.
Iran and Russia’s trade and diplomatic relations result from a larger geopolitical and economic objective. Iran and Russia aim to remove or diminish the U.S.-led world order and create a multipolar world. In 2022, Mahmoud Abbaszadeh-Meshkini, spokesman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian parliament, said, “In the new world order, a triangle consisting of three powers – Iran, Russia, and China – has formed in Asia. This new arrangement heralds the end of the inequitable hegemony of the United States and the West.”