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After the invasion of Ukraine, Russia kind of cools towards cooperation with Western states on the Iran nuclear dossier.

It becomes more defensive of Iran, less interested in mediating, less interested in putting pressure on the Iranians,

and then basically a window of opportunity to restore a nuclear deal closes by the fall of 2022.

It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Anastasia Lapatina, Ukraine fellow at Lawfare, with Hannah Nott,

the Eurasia director at the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at Middlebury College and an expert

on Russia's foreign policy in the Middle East.

Vladimir Putin does not want to ruin his personal relationship with Donald Trump because

of the war in Ukraine.

So you see this kind of interesting bifurcation between the Kremlin and then everyone else in the Russian system who can be

move forward-leaning and criticizing the United States. We spoke about the complicated and often

misunderstood relationship between Iran and Russia and the role that Moscow has been playing

in the ongoing war in Iran. I think most people know that Iran and Russia are quite close,

and most people probably have heard about the role that Iran is playing in Russia's war against

Ukraine, supplying Russia with Cheheds and giving it its drone technology. But actually,

the relationship between the two countries in history has been quite tense and very hostile.

So can you just talk a little bit about that?

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