{"id":271065,"date":"2017-03-27T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=271065"},"modified":"2020-10-26T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T02:57:11","slug":"russia-can-use-iranian-military-bases-on-case-by-case-basis-tehran-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/russia-can-use-iranian-military-bases-on-case-by-case-basis-tehran-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia can use Iranian military bases \u2018on case by case basis\u2019, Tehran confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Another great move against US imperialism! China, Russia, Iran, and soon others will finally stop the world bullying.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Russia can use Iranian military bases for airstrikes targeting terrorists in Syria on a \u201ccase by case basis,\u201d Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia doesn&#8217;t have a military base [in Iran], we have good cooperation, and on a case by case basis, when it is necessary for Russians fighting terrorism to use Iranian facilities, we will make a decision,\u201d\u00a0Zarif\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia used the Hamadan Airbase in Iran to launch attacks in August 2016 against militants in Syria. Tehran then granted Russia permission to deploy an undisclosed number of Tupolev Tu-22M3 supersonic long-range strategic bombers and Sukhoi Su-34 strike fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said at the time that the Russian deployment was temporary, but would last\u00a0\u201cas long as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February this year, Iranian media reported that Russian planes bound for the Syria anti-terrorist operation still use Iranian airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran and Russia cooperate in Syria not in single cases, but the coordination is comprehensive, embracing different aspects; accordingly, Iran\u2019s airspace welcomes Russian fighter jets in case they seek to hit terrorist targets in Syria,&#8221;\u00a0Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said, as quoted by the Mehr news agency.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of December, Russia, Turkey, and Iran helped broker a nationwide ceasefire in Syria. Talks, involving these three countries, as well as representatives of Damascus and the Syrian opposition, have been taking place in Astana since January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/382523-russia-iran-bases-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/382523-russia-iran-bases-use\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Another great move against US imperialism! China, Russia, Iran, and soon others will finally stop the world bullying. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}