This is John Bachelor.

Sergei Shoyku, the National Security Advisor to Vladimir Putin, former Minister of Defense

during that early period of invasion of Ukraine in Tehran to meet with the new president of Tehran

but also at the same time to talk business perhaps I speak with Colonel Jeff

McCausen the United States Army retired, why and does this knit one

war in Ukraine together with another war, the threat by Iran to attack directly against Israel while its surrogates Hezbollah, Hamas, the

huthies, continued to attack Israel.

Shoygu and Tehran, Colonel Jeff McCausen, comments, more of this tonight.

Not at all, John. I think I most certainly they are.

One has to keep in mind the relationship between Iran and Russia has been burgeoning over the last many months since this war in Ukraine began and we know that the Russians are at least becoming more and more dependent on drones provided by Iran to enhance their efforts to strike Ukraine.

There have been some suggestion that perhaps the Iranians are willing to sell the Russian ballistic missiles to expand their

inventories as well. So I don't recall seeing any direct evidence of Iranian

ballistic missiles being employed by Russia against Ukraine. We certainly know there have been, however, some North Korean missiles

used against the Ukraine by the Russians.