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Situation Assessment 09 November, 2015

Russo-Iranian Relations and the Vienna Nuclear Agreement

Lana Ravandi-Fadai

​Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Persian language at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Fadai has published numerous articles on Iranian domestic and foreign affairs. She obtained an MA from the Moscow State University of International Relations and a PhD from the Department of Iranian Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow.

Russo-Iranian relations have undergone a series of often-erratic ups and downs. Looking at the period since the Islamic Revolution, a number of periods can be drawn out, each marked by a series of competing trends and alliances that ebb and flow depending on shifting internal and external actors. It is the same set of politics within which the outcome of the Vienna Nuclear Agreement can be read, in terms of the future of Russo-Iranian relations.

 

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