How St. Petersburg became Tehran’s last strategic lifeline

In the shifting geometry of global power, wars are no longer merely fought on battlefields, they are negotiated in silence, traded across continents, and priced in barrels of oil and bytes of intelligence. The Iran crisis of 2026 has become precisely that kind of conflict: a high-stakes geopolitical
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