All right, Alexander, let's talk about this story of ballistic missiles from Iran to Russia.

Short-range ballistic missiles is what we are being told. Iran has given Russia.

This is causing outrage and alarm in the collective West. I don't see why they're so outraged over over this. But it does look like

this is part of a bigger deal, a military deal between Russia and Iran. What do you think is going on here?

Well, I suspect that's the true reason for the outrage because as you absolutely said in itself the deal

has no there's nothing in the deal that one would expect the way would provoke the west's outrage

after all russia and iran have our friends they're now fellow br BRICS states. The West has terrible relations with Iran.

The West has terrible relations with Russia. Iran has been threatened. We've had an assassination

take place in Tehran on the day of the president of Iran's inauguration. The West has imposed

sanctions on Iran. There's been talks about attacks on Iran. It's entirely unsurprising,

therefore, that the Russians and the Iranians are coming together and that they're agreeing

military deals with each other.

Now, about this particular deal, and I think we can take it that this deal does exist,

because a very prominent Iranian parliamentarian has confirmed it.

I suspect what this is all about is that it flows directly from the events

that took place back a few weeks ago when Isma Khanir, the chief negotiator and political head

of Hamas was assassinated in Tehran.

We got reports afterwards that the Ukrainians, that sorry, the Iranians were busy

receiving advanced air defense missile systems from the Russians, S-400 missiles, the accompanying radars, all of that

sort of sophisticated technology. Now, this went beyond previous deals, arms deals between the Russians

and the Iranians that we knew about.

There are existing public deals for Russia to supply Suhoy 35 fighter jets to Iran,

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