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Russia Forming Space Alliance With Iran, May Fly Iranian Astronaut (examiner.com)
MarkWhittington writes: Quietly, the Russians appear to be forming a space alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to a story in Sputnik. Not only is Russia in talks to launch Iranian satellites on Russian rockets but also to include an Iranian astronaut on a future space mission. What that space mission might be is open to question. A visit by an Iranian astronaut to the International Space Station would likely kick up a political firestorm with the United States, even though the Obama administration is attempting to develop a rapprochement with the Islamic Republic.
Because Russian infidels didn't organize a coup of the democratically elected government of Iran and replace it with friendly monarch in order to maintain access to oil on better terms. They didn't then continue to provide support to the monarch's secret police in order to suppress all opposition.