Top US Air Force official in Mideast worries about possible Russia-Iran ‘cooperation and collusion’

Published September 24, 2023 9:47 PM

By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supplying of bomb-carrying drones to Russia could see Moscow help Tehran’s program become more lethal, raising risks across the wider Middle East. That’s according to the top U.S. Air Force commander in the Middle East Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the head of U.S. Air Force Central, who described on Wednesday the danger potentially posed by Russia’s “cooperation and collusion” with Iran as extending from the airspace over Syria, while Tehran threatens commercial ships in the waters of the Persian Gulf. Iran’s mission to the United Nations and the Russian Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.

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