This old project but problems has become deeper. Remember Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah telling US to cut head of Snake. Abdullah visited Russia in 2003 regarding this and other issue but relations remains chilly untill 2007. this when Russia playing games with S300.
Russia is only reason this Iran and its Proxies were kept afloat and this has done enormous damage. It took Putin more than a decade to cut these Soviet tentacles and Putin approach to this Iran issue let me deal with Europe first and this will solve this Iran problem and Russia has the right weopons to deal with underground nuclear installations in Iran should need arise. Iran does not appreciate what Russia has done for it because it thinks it has same soft power as Gulf Monarchies.
Brigadier General Faisal Al-Anzi, a military expert specializing in Saudi-Russian relations Speaking to , he added , "Relations between the two countries continued to be chilly from 1991 until the mid-2000s, until President Vladimir Putin's visit in 2007. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz received the Russian president, a visit that heralded the development of relations between the two countries in all areas."
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