Vladimir Putin won staunch support from Iran on 19 July for his country's military campaign in Ukraine with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Khamenei states that if Russia hadn't sent the military to Ukraine, it would face a strike from NATO later, an idea that echoed Putin's rhetoric and reflected increasingly close ties between Tehran and Moscow as they both face crippling Western sanctions. NATO supported their military in Eastern Europe and helped Ukraine with weapons to help counter the Russian attack. On his second trip abroad, Russia launched military action in February, and Putin consulted with two presidents. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, on the war in Syria, and he used the trip to talk about a U.N.-backed proposal to resume expor...
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