Iran and Russia have agreed on plans to quash Washington's relentless drive towards launching an attack on Iran.

Discussions took place during Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent visit to Tehran, according to the Asia Times.

Putin held a face-to-face meeting with Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, where the agreement was finalized.

According to a high-level diplomatic source in Tehran, the Supreme Leader and the Russian president essentially agreed that an American attack on Iran would be viewed by Moscow as an attack on Russia.

The two states are officially united in a strategic partnership, in which World War III is definitely not on the cards.

US Vice President, Dick Cheney, who is notorious for elevating the war rhetoric against Iran at any given opportunity, is now facing an increasingly difficult challenge in fanning the flames of war.

The US president and top US officials, who often attempt to demonize Tehran as a threat to world peace, have themselves been threatening Iran with military force over the country's nuclear standoff with the West.

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