On January 17 2025, three days before President-elect Trump's inauguration, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the reformist President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian signed a 47-point comprehensive strategic partnership for 20 years. The negotiations were on the table for the last few years but the timing of the agreement is symbolic. However, the agreement did not formalize the way analysts and foreign policy pundits expected. Since the Russia-Ukraine war, the cooperation between these two nations has intensified, and the agreement looks like an official stamp to that cooperation....