Daily Memo: Russia-Iran Security Talks

And Quad naval exercises got underway near Japan.

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Security chat. The secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, is in Iran for meetings with his Iranian counterpart and unspecified high-ranking political and economic officials. Iran recently admitted to supplying Russia with drones that have been used in attacks in Ukraine, but Tehran claims that the weapons were sold before the war began. […]

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