“The more Iran represses, the more there will be sanctions, the more there are sanctions, the more Iran feels isolated,” Rob Malley, the US special envoy on Iran, told a conference in Rome. The US director of national intelligence, Avril Haynes, said at the weekend there was worrying evidence Russia was seeking to deepen military cooperation with Iran. One senior European diplomat said Iran was paying a huge cost for its decision to become the only country to arm Russia in the war against Ukraine. “It’s an unholy alliance and a massive miscalculation by Iran,” the diplomat said. But Haynes said the US did not have intelligence that Iran is trying to weaponise the uranium stockpiles.
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