As on spirit: I was afraid of a tripartite meeting in Jerusalem. Most Israeli observers have argued that it marks a strategic turn of Russia - a new version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop. Russia will bid farewell to Iran and embrace Israel and America, they vangali.

But the prophets failed. No wonder the Talmud says that the spirit of prophecy left Israel a few centuries before Christ.

At this meeting, the representative of Russia Nikolai Patrushev confirmed the foreign policy of the Kremlin. Russia, of course, is friendly to Israel, where many people associated with Russia live by their birth or the birth of their ancestors live. Russia, of course, wants to live in peace with the United States. But Russia does not even think of parting with Iran, its ally in the fight against terror in Syria.

Nikolai Patrushev stressed the importance of Iran to continue the fight against terror. He said that Iran shot down a giant American drone RQ-4A Global Hawk worth more than $ 100 million in Iranian airspace, and not internationally, as the Pentagon claimed. Russia demands that the United States stop the economic war against Iran, recognize the legitimate authorities of Syria, led by President Bashar Assad, and withdraw its troops from Syria.

Thus, Russia showed itself at this difficult moment as a reliable ally and partner and at the same time assured the staggering Israeli leadership of its friendship.

Russia wants to get closer to the United States, is interested in meeting the presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation in Osaka, but is absolutely not going to pay for this meeting, which is necessary for both superpowers, with its basic legitimate interests.

Against the backdrop of this meeting in Jerusalem, the United States continues to carry out clumsy maneuvers on Iran. Both President Trump and his belligerent adjutants Bolton and Pompeo argue that they are seeking negotiations with Iran. “The door is open,” they say. “Let Iran enter and we will talk and agree.”

But at the same time with these peace-loving words, the United States launched a real economic war against Tehran. What they do, called sanctions is not enough - it is a direct economic war. And not only economic - according to The New York Times, the US cyber services, their NSA intelligence (NSA) attacked the Iranian infrastructure, radar, air defense system and caused irreparable damage to them. True, Iran, confirming the fact of the attack, claims that it was able to repel.

The United States nearly launched a missile-bombing attack on Iran. At the last moment, when the planes were already in the air, Trump stopped the operation.

It is particularly disturbing that he himself unambiguously hinted that the operation was launched without his knowledge. That is, now the chain of commands in the USA is torn; it is not clear who can start a war. This has to be taken into account both in Moscow and in Tehran.

“Why is Iran silent?” They ask in Washington. Iran is not silent. Iran speaks openly: the United States must stop its aggression against Iran, and then it is already possible to enter into negotiations. There is nothing to talk to diplomats while the guns of economic war are talking.

The situation is daunting. President Trump may want to come to an agreement and climb down from that tall tree he had driven himself into when he led his country out of a multilateral nuclear deal with Iran. But he is hampered by his deep state and Pompeo with Bolton; about the latter, Trump himself said that he wants to fight with the whole world. Presidents can not always remove the ministers from whom they want to get rid of, even the absolute monarchs of the past did not always succeed.

Iran is experiencing a difficult time - the sanctions are very painful, it is difficult to sell oil and gas, because the United States prohibits potential buyers from using dollars. Moreover, US courts award gigantic fines to those whom they call "violators of US sanctions." Thus, using the example of Iran, a check is made of that machine of total global control, which was built by the United States and its allies. And therefore, for Russia, the issue of Iranian sanctions is not at all an outsider. Not just and not only friendship and partnership, not only alliance determine the attitude of Russia. For great Russia, independence is necessary as air.

Actually, the topic of anti-Iran sanctions was central to the negotiations that ended yesterday in Jerusalem. Moscow is ready to help the parties to agree - provided that the United States lifts sanctions from Iran, recognizes Bashar Assad and withdraws troops from Syria and Iraq, Moscow will try to achieve a limited withdrawal of Iranian troops from Syria, as the familiar Israeli commentator writes. But still, Prime Minister Netanyahu believed that he would manage to crush Iran with American power without rejecting Russian proposals.

Let us hope that in the light of the tripartite talks in Jerusalem, given Trump’s unwillingness to go to war and the weak position of Premier Netanyahu himself, there will be progress in this matter. But this week Trump introduced new sanctions against Iran, the Iranian leader called the American leadership "insane", the Americans are again threatening to completely destroy Iran. So the darkness may still thicken before dawn.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.