Russian warplanes flew their first-ever bombing mission from an air base inside Iran on Tuesday, expanding the Kremlin's geopolitical reach and revealing new steel in its ties with Tehran.
Long-range SU-34 and TU-22 bombers took off from a base at Hamadan in western Iran for a raid over Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The flight was the first foreign military operation from Iranian soil since World War II.
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