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Sky News Analysis: Iran has no choice but to retaliate against the US! Will China, Russia and North Korea enter the 'game'?
2025-06-22 21:15:03 / BOTA
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he would hold "serious consultations" with Vladimir Putin on Monday morning in Moscow. His country is also in contact with Beijing.
Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are considered by Western allies as a new axis of authoritarian powers, increasingly united and supportive of each other.
However, Donald Trump has broken away from his country's traditional democratic partners to forge a closer relationship with Mr Putin than with any other American leader in recent years.
How much this could affect the Kremlin's calculations, as Moscow analyzes how to respond to its actions in Iran, adds unpredictability to the crisis.
Another limiting factor is the physical capacity of the Russian military to support Iran militarily, given its war in Ukraine.
Unlike the NATO alliance, there is no formal agreement between Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang to come to each other's aid in a crisis.
However, the weakening of one of the members would affect the vital national interests of the other three, making it beneficial for both sides to assist each other – including with military force or at least by supplying weapons.
Iran has no choice but to retaliate directly against the United States after three of its main nuclear facilities were hit overnight, Sky News analysis says.
Tehran's ability to launch ballistic missiles and drones has been severely degraded by waves of Israeli strikes since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to war with Iran a week and a half ago.
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