Iran’s missile supply to Moscow may reveal true scale of Pezeshkian’s powers

Tehran’s Russia sceptics were making some headway pointing to positions taken by Moscow on the future of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict that undermined Iran’s territorial integrity. There was also anger at Russia’s stance over Iran’s claim to three islands in the strait of Hormuz. In the reformist press, it also became commonplace to allege that Russia was trying to put a stone in the road of better Iranian-European communications.