{"id":428622,"date":"2026-03-18T03:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/russia-has-been-expanding-its-military-cooperation-with-iran-report\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:25:04","slug":"russia-has-been-expanding-its-military-cooperation-with-iran-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/russia-has-been-expanding-its-military-cooperation-with-iran-report-428622\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has been expanding its military cooperation with Iran &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Russia has been expanding its intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery and improved drone technology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia-is-sharing-satellite-imagery-and-drone-technology-with-iran-0dd95e49?mod=Searchresults&amp;pos=1&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according <\/a>to the WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>The report says &#8220;Russia is trying to keep Iran in the fight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That makes total sense from Russia&#8217;s perspective as it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Boosts oil prices<\/li>\n<li>Gives the US a taste of its own medicine from Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>Limits weapons that can be sent to Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>Protects a market for its weapons exports<\/li>\n<li>Provides a testing ground for its weapons, particularly naval weapons<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see any reason why Russia would give up this strategy which is what scares me regarding a prolonged conflict. The echos of Ukraine are extremely strong.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside for Russia is that exporting weapons to Iran right now could limit the weapons it has for its own war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>WTI crude oil was up $2.94 to $95.39 today.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has been expanding its intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery and improved drone technology, according to the WSJ. The report says &#8220;Russia is trying to keep Iran&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}