Because the Iranians could cause chaos by closing the straits of Hormuz pretty easily, you should know that FFS , you used to work for argus(not the brighton paper)
They don't actually share any border at all with Russia.Now you could argue that NATO wanted to have a naval presence in the Black Sea , and you could argue that they shared a border with 3 old soviet states of Armenia,Azerbaijan and Georgia , but that border isn't very long either, as for...