In March 2024, a Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed while taking off from an air base in western Russia.
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When Russia briefly used an Iranian air base in 2016 to strike targets in Syria, domestic backlash in Tehran was so fierce that the agreement was reversed within a week.
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