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What's happening in Ukraine just got more geopolitically complex. NATO is no longer the only international force entering the mix, as it turns out, the nation of Iran is playing a pivotal role in the conflict as well.

But why? A gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, and I'm going to break down for you in a step-by-step fashion. Why the nation of Iran is getting so deeply involved in the Ukrainian conflict?

As NATO nations band together and their aid to defend Ukraine from Russia's special military operation, one nation's involvement in the conflict may have gone unnoticed.

The Islamic Republic of Iran. A powerful alliance is formed between the Theocratic regime and the Russian Federation, and it's an alliance that's not only affecting the theater in Ukraine, but in many respects, is a foreshadow of the future world order that even now is beginning to appear.

To understand what's going on, we have to go back to the pivotal year of 1979. Prior to that, Iran was led by a pro-American monarchy, and in the decade leading up to that year, Iranian relations with the other pro-American Middle Eastern powers Saudi Arabia were highly cooperative and friendly.

But all that changed when the exiled religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran as a leader of a powerful and ultimately successful Islamic revolution.

With Iran led by Shiites and Saudi Arabia led by Wahabi Sunnis, the two nations aligned themselves geopolitically with the two opposing Cold War powers.

Saudi Arabia with the United States, Iran entered into rather tepid but militarily strategic alliance with the Soviet Union.

After the fall of communism in 1991, Russian and Iranian relations grew closer. This was largely due to the resurgence of religious sentiment in the renewal of Russian orthodoxy within the Federation.

Scholars have long recognized that Russia and Iran are among the nations that represent a rising post-secular world where ancient religious traditions are returning in mass and effectively reshaping their politics from geopolitics to what we might call theopolitics.

This alliance grew even stronger with the eruption of civil war inside of Syria in 2011. Both Russia and Iran were concerned that the Syrian civil war would result in a pro-Western pro-NATO regime and were both determined to stop it.

Both countries provided crucial support to the Syrian government under President Bashar al-Assad while pursuing their own strategic interests in the region.

Iran has been a long-standing ally the Syrian government primarily due to their shared geopolitical and ideological interests.

Syria serves as a crucial link in Iran's regional influence providing a land route for the transportation of weapons and supplies to Hezbollah and Iranian-backed militant group based in Lebanon.

Russia and Iran's cooperation in Syria deepened significantly over time. They coordinated their military activities and shared intelligence to support the Assad regime's military operations.

The Russian military provided air support to Iranian-backed ground forces facilitating their offences against opposition groups and terrorist organizations including the Islamic State or ISIS.

In return, Iran allowed Russia to use its air bases for conducting airstrikes in Syria, but then the alliance between the two nations grew even closer when the U.S. and Western nations imposed a blitzkrieg of sanctions against Russia in retaliation for their invasion of Ukraine.

In fact, the sanctions were so intense that they were actually three times greater than the sanctions levied against what was now the world's second most heavily sanctioned country and that of course was Iran.

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