{"id":41216,"date":"2026-03-29T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41216\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:32:10","slug":"russia-mapping-us-assets-to-help-iran-zelenskyy-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41216\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia mapping US assets to help Iran, Zelenskyy says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow has also taken satellite photographs of a U.S.-U.K. joint military facility in the Indian Ocean, as well as Kuwait International Airport and parts of the infrastructure of the Greater Burgan oil field, Zelenskyy wrote, citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2037955484100051196\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2037955484100051196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">daily intelligence update<\/a>. Russia also shared pictures of several bases and oilfields in Turkey and Qatar, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has denied sharing intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy&#8217;s charges echo those of the EU\u2019s top diplomat Kaja Kallas, who last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-sharing-intelligence-with-iran-kill-americans-says-eus-top-diplomat-kaja-kallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accused<\/a> Russia of supplying Iran with intelligence that has helped Tehran target U.S. military assets in the Middle East. Russia\u2019s support of Iran shows why Europe needs to keep up the pressure on the Kremlin with respect to the war in Ukraine, Kallas said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has sent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2037906827778682900?s=20?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2037906827778682900?s=20?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">thousands more troops<\/a> to the Middle East, officials announced on Saturday, including the arrival in the region of the USS Tripoli with about 2,500 U.S. Marines. U.S. Central Command <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2037906827778682900?s=20?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> in a social media post that the amphibious assault ship serves as the flagship for a naval group that also includes transport and strike fighter aircraft, as well as amphibious assault and tactical assets.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/03\/28\/trump-iran-ground-troops-marines\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/03\/28\/trump-iran-ground-troops-marines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Washington Post <\/a>reported on Sunday. While U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Friday that it is \u201cnot going to be a prolonged conflict,\u201d the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/national-security\/what-an-influx-of-17-000-u-s-troops-could-mean-for-the-iran-war-7569afea?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqdZfRhd7i77g8MuBlg1g2ppSIJA9Tsm0K-p8qdyXC5T2XUocLY9HfvUAGFLc48%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69c820a4&amp;gaa_sig=S61ls-q2OvMNXSQL36Sokj4pGnpjZrLqIoFyTw9gpI_aWPEo6x98GNRYLmoyrQKu8SG_uBTBuSXkOsJQQygvQg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/26\/iran-invasion-plans-kharg-island-trump\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/26\/iran-invasion-plans-kharg-island-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a> have reported that the Trump administration is considering deploying another 10,000 troops to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy had harsh words for the U.S.&#8217;s move to partially lift sanctions against Russia. The U.S. is providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm2871wyz9ko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a one-month waiver<\/a> on sanctions to countries buying Russian oil as a measure to counter the economic impact of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanctions are being lifted, while the aggressor is providing intelligence to strike facilities, including those of the countries that are discussing or have already lifted sanctions,\u201d the Ukrainian leader said, describing this as \u201cstrange.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow has also taken satellite photographs of a U.S.-U.K. joint military facility in the Indian Ocean, as well&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2237,648,687,694,1281,34,6367,9283,35,689,49,179,712,213,271,55,509,7289,50,1176,51,1976,3869,36,226,2679],"class_list":{"0":"post-41216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-infrastructure","12":"tag-intelligence","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-kaja-kallas","15":"tag-kremlin","16":"tag-kuwait","17":"tag-media","18":"tag-middle-east","19":"tag-military","20":"tag-missiles","21":"tag-oil","22":"tag-qatar","23":"tag-russia","24":"tag-sanctions","25":"tag-satellites","26":"tag-saudi-arabia","27":"tag-turkey","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-vladimir-putin","30":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","31":"tag-war","32":"tag-war-in-iran","33":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116312247519664335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}