For Moscow, the risk of losing Iran is not just losing a friend, but losing a pivot-state that helps stabilize Russia's southern strategic environment and facilitates anti-Western coordination during periods of sanctions and diplomatic isolation.

Authors

• Person: Yucheng Hou Organization: Ciris
  Iran at a Crossroads: Legitimacy, External Pressure and Regional ...

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• Iran at a Crossroads: Legitimacy, External Pressure and Regional ... www.ciris.info Yucheng Hou · Ciris via serper

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• Russia entity
• Iran entity
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