00:00Iran's Abbasarachi has thanked Russia's Vladimir Putin for a firm and unshaken support.
00:08If Iran is looking for weapons, have they gone to the right place?
00:14Yes, partly. I think commentators believe that Russia is giving Iran very useful intelligence,
00:21very useful information on targeting. They are not giving them direct material supplies,
00:30I believe, at this moment, because Russia needs to be extremely careful where it places itself
00:36at this moment. John Limbert there was just commenting on the Iranian-Russian relationship.
00:43And Russia can't just take Iran's side on this, which it apparently is doing rhetorically,
00:52while Foreign Minister Arachi is in Moscow, because it has and wants to have reasonable relations
00:58with the Arab side of the Gulf. And the Gulf states on the Arab side will be looking at what's
01:05happening in Moscow extremely carefully. So Russia needs to be quite cautious about how it places
01:15itself. But it looks as though it gave Iran very useful targeting information, which helped partly
01:25to destroy some oil and gas facilities on the Arab side of the Gulf. So making Iran a friend can
01:34make
01:34Russia some enemies. So let's see how that goes. But Russia, I don't think, can be a negotiator in this
01:44conflict in this negotiation. It's not going to be trusted equally by both sides. As John Limbert has
01:51just said, it has its own national interests foremost in its mind. President Putin and Foreign Minister
02:00Lavrov will be thinking of how Russia can gain from this. So trust in Russia to help solve this?
02:08I'm not sure that's in full supply at the moment.
02:13I'm not sure that's in full supply at the moment.
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