Source: Fox News · 2026-09-04 · Original article ↗

Putin and Iran 'need each other desperately,' expert says, as Russia voices support for regime

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Putin sent regards to the Supreme Leader. Breedlove said both are broke and still useful.

Summary

  • Fox News reports Vladimir Putin shook hands with Masoud Pezeshkian at the SCO summit in Kyrgyzstan and, per a Kremlin readout, pledged full solidarity, admired Iran's fight for national interests, and sent regards to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei.
  • Retired Gen. Philip Breedlove, a former NATO commander, told Fox both sides need each other desperately and are hurting economically. He said Russia needs Iranian missiles after Ukraine hit Russian production, and Iran needs Russian targeting and intelligence to keep hitting Americans in the region.
  • Jason Brodsky of United Against Nuclear Iran said Moscow uses Tehran as a cudgel against America, while Iran uses Russia for military, economic, and U.N. Security Council cover.
  • Breedlove said the fight is now a test of will because early U.S. decisions ruled out ground troops, so the IRGC only has to survive and keep threatening Hormuz, which lifts insurance and snarls carriers. He said America has air and sea dominance.

Commentary

A Gulf-port longshoreman still feels container paint on a palm and wants a strait that does not price a loaf off a Russian-Iranian swap. He did not hook a crane so a handshake in Bishkek could own the insurance sheet.

Missiles one way. Targeting the other. Solidarity in the readout. The honest dad already paid the premium. The broke pair paid each other.

Ask every working father who still loads a hull at dawn: if two broke regimes can still trade missiles for intel, who still owns the next insurance rate?

Comments

If two broke regimes can still swap missiles for targeting intel, who owns the next rate?
u/border_dad · 5h

Solidarity. Missiles. Targeting. That is a barter, not a speech.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I sat a NATO desk. A Security Council cover is a weapon. Treat it as one.

u/rule_first · 4h

Kremlin readout. Khamenei regards. Breedlove. Brodsky. No boots, IRGC survives. Publish the five.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allied insurers still price a threatened strait. Kill the intel pipe.

u/docket_rat · 3h

SCO Kyrgyzstan. UANI. Lavrov enrich line in the related cut. File the handshake.

u/night_shift · 2h

I still hook a crane. I want the swap broken before the next premium.

u/texas_mom · 90m

A loaf should not wait on a Bishkek photo. Cut both ledgers.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

Air and sea dominance is not the end if the IRGC only needs to live. Keep Outcast on.

u/press_clip · 30m

Fox printed solidarity, missiles-for-Ukraine, and the will test. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Break the swap. Keep the dominance. A handshake is not a cease-fire.

Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.

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