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Weekend: Russia and Iran 'defence partnership'

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Russia & Iran "defence partnership"

10/12/2022 GMT

Russia and Iran 'defence partnership'

BBC World Service - Weekend, Russia and Iran 'defence partnership'

US says Moscow and Tehran are military partners

The United States and Britain have warned that Russia and Iran are transforming their relationship into a fully-fledged defence partnership, with serious consequences for Ukraine and Iran's neighbours. An Iranian professor tells us it is nothing new.

Also in the programme: a Danish campaign aimed at curbing Greenland's growing Inuit population in the 1960s and 1970s, that affected 4,500 women; the upcoming trial of Wirecard's CEO, the scandal that's been named as the greatest fraud case in German history. 

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other stories are Emma Graham Harrison, Senior International Affairs Correspondent for The Guardian, and Hisham Hellyer, a scholar at Cambridge University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Royal United Services Institute in London.

(Photo: A handout photo made available by the Iranian supreme leader office shows, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C) greets Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (R) looks on, during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, 19 July 2022. Credit: Iranian Supreme Leader Office/EPA-EFE/Rex/Shutterstock)

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