Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps sources suggest further military cooperation efforts between Tehran and Moscow. Corps-affiliated Tasnim News published an editorial arguing that a Russian-Iranian joint production agreement could allow Iran to obtain Russian Mi-28 and Ka-52 attack helicopters.. Both Tehran and Moscow appear to be counting on these agreements to ease the pressure of U.S. sanctions against them..

That Russia continues to deepen military and economic relations with Iran in an attempt to engage in mutually beneficial sanctions evasion is also stated in the latest report from the Institute for the Study of War..

In particular, on the eve it became known that the head of the Russian Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, met with Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisa on January 23 in Tehran to expand bilateral cooperation.

Ghalibaf noted that Moscow and Tehran should "

In a video released 10 months ago, Mi-28N and Ka-52 support airborne units during the Kremlin's so-called "

Mi-28 is a Soviet and Russian attack helicopter designed to search and destroy tanks and other armored vehicles, as well as low-speed air targets and enemy manpower, in the face of active fire resistance..

The Ka-52 is known as the " Can hit armored and unarmored vehicles, manpower and air targets in the battlefield. It is a continuation of the development of the Ka-50 "