Anna Borshchevskaya is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of Putin’s War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America’s Absence.
Neither Russia nor China came to Iran’s rescue in June this year during the US-Israel-Iran crisis. Moscow and Beijing condemned the Israeli military campaign...
Thus far, Moscow has done little to help Iran beyond rhetorical condemnations of Israel and the US and offers to mediate. Russian President Vladimir...