Russia has been given the green light to start making its own Iranian drones — devices it is already using extensively against Ukraine. That Iran thus becomes Putin’s staunchest ally stems from shared hatred. “We need America as an enemy,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (83) readily admits. He has been at the head of the strict Islamic state for 33 years, although he himself is not always as pious as he seems.
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PORTRAIT. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Putin’s staunch ally who dispels his depressive moods with bawdy jokes and caviar
