http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ26Ak06.html?=retrieve_rss
he usually only speaks through a representative
I must say, I have been waiting for this move by Russia on the global chessboard for a long time.
The barely reported highlight of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran for the Caspian Sea summit last week was a key face-to-face meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
An American attack on Iran will be viewed by Moscow as an attack on Russia.
In itself, the Putin-Khamenei meeting was extraordinary, because the Supreme Leader rarely receives foreign statesmen for closed talks, even one as crucial as Putin.
he usually only speaks through a representative
I must say, I have been waiting for this move by Russia on the global chessboard for a long time.