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Ardavan Khoshnood (PhD) focuses on Iranian foreign policy, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence as well as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He is a guest lecturer of Offender Profiling including Political Profiling at Malmö University. He is also a senior fellow at Lund University.
Iran-Russia ties: Never better but maybe not forever?
The relationship between Iran and Russia has been strengthened by the rising tensions between Tehran and Washington since Donald Trump took office, and there is no doubt that Iran views Russia as one of its closest allies. The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has traveled to Moscow some 28 times during his tenure, and has stated that relations between the two countries have never been better.
