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Russia is mulling sending fighter jets to Iran as part of an expanding military alliance that has seen Tehran ship artillery and tank rounds to Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, the White House said Friday.
Forty-four years after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Tehran is once again feeling the wrath of its citizenry. Then, it was the Shah and his "modern ideals" the people sought to, and successfully did, overthrow. Now, a different regime -- the Islamic Republic -- is in power and in the people's crosshairs.
Thousands of university professors are calling on the White House to hold Tehran's hardline regime accountable as Iranian security forces crack down on student protestors.
Iran has rapidly and unexpectedly emerged as Russia's most reliable wartime partner, providing drones and missiles for its brutal attacks on Ukrainian civilians, on-the-ground tech support for its flight operators, and even turbines to help Russia's gas industry skirt Western economic sanctions.
Pentagon officials said Thursday that Iranian troops are on the ground in Ukraine assisting Russian forces with drone strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and other targets, marking a major escalation in Tehran's involvement with the war and its close military partnership with the Kremlin.