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Moscow Times: Russia and Iran working on coordinated defense against US sanctions, official says

By The Moscow Times.

Published Sept. 12, 2018 at 4:40 pm

(LtoR) Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands after a joint press conference as part of a tripartite summit on Syria, in Ankara, on April 4, 2018.

Photo by AFP / Adem Alten

Russia has partnered with Iran to come up with a “layered defense” against United States sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program, a senior Russian diplomat has said.

President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in May and is re-imposing sanctions on Tehran. The other parties to the accord — China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany — are trying to find ways to save the agreement.

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