A photograph released by Russian state media shows President Vladimir V. Putin, left, and President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran at a very socially distanced meeting at the Kremlin on Wednesday.Credit…Pavel Bednyakov/Sputnik MOSCOW — Sitting across a long table from President Vladimir V. Putin at a Covid-conscious distance, President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran reminded his Russian counterpart on Wednesday that Tehran had been “resisting America for 40 years.”

And now that Russia was plunging deeper into its own confrontation with the United States, Mr. Raisi told Mr. Putin in televised remarks, it was time to take on “the power of the […]

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