Russia’s ‘Eleventh-Hour’ Interference in the Iran Deal

Vladimir Putin’s Russia is now contemplating blowing up attempts to revive the nuclear restraints deal signed with Iran in 2015, a beacon of multilateral diplomacy sabotaged by Donald Trump’s unilateral withdrawal of the US in 2018.

Moscow is seeking to use the Iran deal to shield itself from the full effect of Western sanctions.

Russia’s foreign minister has demanded that the revived accord must guarantee Moscow’s right to trade and invest freely with Iran. This naked attempt to punch through the wall of sanctions the west has imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine is the epitome of cynicism.