Tag: Putin: Didn’t Agree to Play Lackey

NOVANEWS While Moscow hopes to balance its relationship with Tehran with its ties to Tel Aviv and Washington, premature gloating about the Kremlin abandoning Iran outright — in some “deal” beggared by Netanyahu and Trump, no less — remain mere wishful thinking. By Elliott Gabriel  TEHRAN, IRAN – Little of real substance seems to have resulted from the infamous Helsinki meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, with even a joint communiqué from the two heads of state failing to materialize. Yet much of the talk about a possible “Helsinki pact” discussed between the two leaders has focused on potential trade-offs affecting the proxy conflicts being waged across the Middle East and Russia’s borders. Reports alleging a supposed “grand bargain” between the W...