@OldTwilight , my friend please go through the lines of this article below.
More than a year on from the beginning of the Ukraine war in February 2022, there is no more business as usual for Russia-Iran relations. While bilateral ties are still characterized by an intense focus on security and defense, the two sides are opening multiple new areas of cooperation as well...
www.mei.edu
This one piece of article is a clear sign/show of western views about Iran, Russia and China. We don't claim Russians have suddenly fallen in love with us. They have their own national interests and we have ours. But as of now, their national security is as important as of our own.
My concern is the level animosity shown in that piece towards Iran. Consider the leverages that west is trying to gather to put pressure on Iran. That is mind boggling, why this amount of animosity? Israel? Independence of Islamic Republic? You know well, their claim on human rights is bullshit, so i ignore that part and avoid mentioning it.
In the last paragraph the western oriented author is embracing a Russia that has directly attacked a country which was willing to join NATO, namely Ukraine, a Russia that has drawn its sword on west and is engaged with west in a hot war, imagine they are ready to accept someone like that just to provide themself with leverages to put more pressure on Iranians. What have we done to them that makes us so much guilty in their eyes? Helped Russia in their attack on Ukraine? It is mainly Russia that has attacked Ukraine not Iran. Then what is the answer? Why so much animosity?
My point, even if you kill yourself to attract westerners' attention, even if you completely kneel and surrender to them, even if you drop all of your identity, they won't stop their animosity against you. As mentioned in the article, west is ready to offer China and Russia with huge concessions just to corner Iran. There must be a reason for it. What could that reason be?