{"id":12053,"date":"2026-04-27T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/12053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:30:28","slug":"trumps-indifference-to-iran-and-russias-military-collaboration-is-staggering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/12053\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s indifference to Iran and Russia\u2019s military collaboration is staggering"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump<\/a> keeps America\u2019s<\/a> friends close but has also kept its Russian enemies in an embarrassing embrace. <\/p>\n

However, his passion for Vladimir Putin<\/a> is being tested as his envoys clamber into bed with Iran\u2019s<\/a> envoys, welcoming Tehran\u2019s foreign minister in St Petersburg on Monday. Like the victim of a coercive relationship, Trump has seemingly gone out of his way to forgive the infidelity of Russia\u2019s<\/a> president. <\/p>\n

Asked about Moscow\u2019s supply of intelligence to Iran that has been used to kill American personnel over the last two months, he replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know, look, they can give all the information that they want but people they\u2019re sending to are overwhelmed. Russia would be overwhelmed too. Anybody would be overwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking as American military bases were under attack from Iranian drones and missiles, the US president shrugged off Russia\u2019s help to Iran by saying: \u201cThey\u2019d say we do it against them. Wouldn\u2019t they say that we do it against them?\u201d<\/p>\n

Such indifference to military collaboration between Iran and Russia at a time of war is staggering.<\/p>\n

\"VladimirVladimir Putin shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Saint Petersburg on April 27, 2026 (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

But it is not surprising. And since then Trump has continued to remain silent on Russia\u2019s close cooperation in the production and development of missile technology with Iran. <\/p>\n

He’s not asked the Russians to step back from their continued involvement in Iran\u2019s development of nuclear power – Russian experts are still on the ground at the Bushehr nuclear facility in Iran.<\/p>\n

The US president has also given Russia financial headroom amid international sanctions on its experts of fossil fuels by lifting some US restrictions of Moscow\u2019s oil exports.<\/p>\n

And on 14 April, his vice president JD Vance described his \u201cproudest moment\u201d of the presidency so far as the decision to cut military aid to Ukraine – a nation that Russia invaded but has been under pressure from Trump and his officials to succumb to Putin\u2019s demands as part of a \u201cpeace process\u201d that has been described by many European governments as a recipe for Kyiv\u2019s capitulation to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

But now Iran\u2019s foreign minister Abbas Aragchi has arrived in Russia to seek more support for its war against America. This is Trump\u2019s opportunity to send at least a minor signal to his friends in Moscow that he\u2019s at least publicly embarrassed by the flirtation.<\/p>\n

\"JDJD Vance at the White House with Donald Trump and Marco Rubio on April 23, 202. (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s ambassador to Moscow has said that it\u2019s much more than a long look across the negotiating table or side eyes over canapes at a diplomatic convention.<\/p>\n

No. This, he says, is a full blown relationship.<\/p>\n

Kazem Jalali, said in a post on X that Mr Araghchi would meet Putin \u201cin continuation of the diplomatic jihad to advance the country’s interests and amid external threats\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran and Russia are present in a united front in the campaign of the world’s totalitarian forces against independent and justice-seeking countries, as well as countries that seek a world free from unilateralism and Western domination,\u201d Jalali said.<\/p>\n

A \u201cunited front\u201d against America. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s response?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they want to talk, they can come to us, or they can call us. You know, there is a telephone. We have nice, secure lines,” he trilled on The Sunday Briefing on Fox News.<\/p>\n

\"TrumpTrump speaking to CBS News after a shooting incident in Washington (60 Minutes, CBS)<\/p>\n

But the Russian support to Iran is real. Moscow has transferred or agreed to transfer advanced air\u2011defence systems, including variants of the S\u2011300 long-range surface-to-air missile systems to Tehran<\/a>. Its excerpts have provided advice on improved accuracy of missiles and how to evade American defences. Russia has also been working with Iran on space launch and satellite technology.<\/p>\n

The two nations also collaborate on developing live battlefield surveillance technology which could be used to kill Americans.<\/p>\n

Rather than try to stop this, Trump has turned on America’s Nato allies who have not joined his attacks on Iran alongside Israel, because it is an illegal war of aggression and choice – not an act of self defence. His administration, which believes it owns the alliance of 31 other member states, is considering expelling Spain and suggested that the Falklands won\u2019t get Nato protection.<\/p>\n

Spain cannot be expelled by the US. The only attack on a Nato member by a foreign state has been by Argentina when it invaded the Falklands in 1982. The US gave almost no help to the UK then and London did not invoke the mutual defence agreement between Nato members. <\/p>\n

The US did that on 9\/11 – and Nato members came to Washington\u2019s aid.<\/p>\n

The only beneficiary to divisions inside Nato is Putin. The US will suffer long term as a consequence of it. Yet Trump has delivered just that.<\/p>\n

Only Tehran and Moscow gain from their close relationship. The US will suffer from their long embrace. The US will suffer as a long term consequence of that too. <\/p>\n

Yet Trump chooses to ignore it or, for reasons that remain obscure and creepy, is powerless to stop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5050,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-12053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-horizontal","9":"tag-russia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}