{"id":12337,"date":"2026-04-28T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/12337\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:39:22","slug":"trump-ignored-as-putin-holds-love-in-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/12337\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ignored as Putin holds love-in with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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, and the Russian president himself welcomed Tehran<\/a>\u2019s foreign minister in St Petersburg on Monday. <\/p>\n

Praising the strength of ties between the two countries, Iran<\/a> said Russia<\/a> had again kindly offered to store its enriched uranium as a way of easing tensions<\/a> in the Middle East. A Russian superyacht<\/a>, the $500 million Nord, has seemingly slipped through the Straight of Hormuz<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

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

\"RussianRussian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi attend a meeting at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in Saint Petersburg (Reuters)<\/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<\/a> 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

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\u2019s not asked the Russians to step back from their continued involvement in Iran\u2019s development of nuclear power \u2013 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 exports of fossil fuels, by lifting some US restrictions on Moscow\u2019s oil exports.<\/p>\n

\"VladimirVladimir Putin shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Saint Petersburg on April 27, 2026 (AFP\/Getty)<\/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 \u2013 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 Araghchi 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 publicly embarrassed by the flirtation.<\/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\u2019s interests and amid external threats\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"JDJD Vance at the White House with Donald Trump and Marco Rubio on April 23, 2026 (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cIran and Russia are present in a united front in the campaign of the world\u2019s 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,\u201d he trilled on The Sunday Briefing on Fox News.<\/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

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

Rather than try to stop this, Trump has turned on America\u2019s Nato allies who have not joined his attacks on Iran alongside Israel, because it is an illegal war of aggression and choice \u2013 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 \u2013 and Nato members came to Washington\u2019s aid.<\/p>\n

The only beneficiary of 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":"Donald Trump keeps America\u2019s friends close but has also kept its Russian enemies in an embarrassing embrace. However,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5050,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-12337","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\/12337","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=12337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}