Russia’s 44-Page 2024-2026 Plan Deepens Iran Ties as Sanctions Pressure Mounts
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 20
Russia’s 44-Page 2024-2026 Plan Deepens Iran Ties as Sanctions Pressure Mounts
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 20
Summary
A nonpublic 44-page Russian government roadmap approved in September 2024 lays out a state-backed plan to deepen ties with Iran through 2026 across finance, energy, aviation and transport.
The document repeatedly pushes national-currency trade, independent financial messaging and central bank digital currencies to reduce exposure to Western sanctions; it targets raising local-currency settlement to 71% by 2026 from 68% in 2024.
Several initiatives later surfaced publicly: Russian and Iranian officials said in 2025 they had largely shifted bilateral settlements off SWIFT, while Rosatom said on Sept. 2, 2026 Russian specialists had resumed work at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant.
The roadmap also assigns work on Iran’s Shadegan, Kish and North Pars fields, explores making Russian aircraft parts in Iran, and backs transport links including the 162-km Rasht-Astara rail segment toward Persian Gulf routes.
Analysts cited in the report say the significance is less any single project than the institutional architecture—ministries, central banks, regulators and state firms—built to make the Russia-Iran partnership more durable under sanctions.
Could the secret 2026 Russia-Iran roadmap and their sanctions-proof digital currency network permanently fracture the global financial system?
Despite ambitious plans for Caspian trade and aviation, could hidden technological limits and capital shortages quietly derail the emerging Eurasian axis?