In the “Recommendations to plan operational activities in the Iranian direction” (version to 2024), the Russian counterintelligence explicitly admits that despite the signed “complementary strategical partnership”** both countries carry out intensive spy operations against each other**. The text reveals, among others, the "technical penetration" of Iranian service structures, the collection of information on the succession of Ayatollah Chameneim and the blocking of the spread of Shiism in Russia.
