Iran and Russia in 'strategic alliance'

@article{Tarock1997IranAR,
  title={Iran and Russia in 'strategic alliance'},
  author={Adam Tarock},
  journal={Third World Quarterly},
  year={1997},
  volume={18},
  pages={207-224},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153838744}
}
  • Adam Tarock
  • Published 1 June 1997
  • Political Science
  • Third World Quarterly
For most of the past two centuries, Russia/the Soviet Union and Persia/Iran have had uneasy, frequently turbulent, relations, often to the detriment of the latter. In fact, the threat to Iran's… 
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