Question About Iran

UGarcia

So i am curious about if iran since the 12 day war has made any like agreements with for example russia or china in the event of another attack or conflict. i actually discovered Doomsday debunked during the 12 day war when i was freaked out and since then i have become a lot more grounded when it comes to international issues and conflicts. but i am just wondering if russia or china had strengthen their support for iran in another conflict event like that since then. because if not i know anything we do in iran will be very brief and irrelevant within a few weeks. has anything changed since then? any insight?

miffy

as far as i know, china and russia are not allies with iran, i’d say commercial partners at most.

i’d like to quote robert’s debunk from another post.

"There are no Russian or Chinese soldiers in Iran and it’s not an ally with either country. Russia WAS a close ally and supporter of Assad but when the rebels took over Aleppo then even though their military was more than a match for them, the Russians focused on getting their soldiers and equipment out of Syria as fast as possible and did nothing to support Assad except to permit him to fly to Moscow to escape the Syrians.

They will certainly do nothing to help the Ayatollah except that they would likely also offer him sanctuary in Russia if he has to flee his country."

Robert-Walker

They haven’t made any military agreements and no sort of alliance or anything like that. But they have sold some new equipment to Iran which is not very surprising given that Israel destroyed pretty much its entire air defences.

But the equipment they sold would only be able to protect small high risk areas and they would also be more effective against the Israelis than the Americans (who have much more resources as well as bases all over the Middle East as well as military vessels and submarines unlike Israel).

For Israel, Iran was barely at the limit of what they could reach with F-16s with extra fuel tanks. But for Americans with in air refueling and their very long distance B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and aircraft carriers, nearby bases etc they are far more flexible.

Checking up on the details there, Russia and China have both sold new equipment to Iran since the 12 day war.

Russia has sold a single S-400 weapon system and Russia has sent some of its HQ-9 air defences.
https://defensemirror.com/news/39946/Iran_Receives_Russian_S_400__Chinese_HQ_Air_Defense_Systems

Russia has also sent half a dozen upgraded Mig-29 fighter jets. It promised to send several of the generation 4+ Su-35s but that is a delayed shipment from 2022 and there is no sign of them yet.

The numbers are small but they would complicate a rerun of the 12 day war by Israel.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202509236847

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/russia-an124-iran-s400-su35-deliveries-2025/

More details.

https://theins.ru/en/opinion/antonio-giustozzi/287381

It likely wouldn’t make much difference to the US with its far greater capabilities than Israel.

It is just supply of weapons for a price and doesn’t involve them in any war in any way.

Robert-Walker

So in short yes anything that the US does would be very brief and irrelevant in a few weeks. And they would check carefully and that would be part of the calculus for any decision to do strikes against Iran.