Just three days before US President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, Russia and Iran are set to finally sign a “comprehensive partnership agreement,” a deal that’s been in the works for months.

President-elect Donald Trump's designate to serve as his Ukraine and Russia envoy says the U.S. must reapply the maximum pressure campaign and the Iranian people have a chance for a new future.

The two countries signed 20-year cooperation pact, but despite anti-US stance there are limits to their partnership.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries on Friday by signing a 20-year strategic partnership that is likely to worry the West.

The agreement is focused more on trade than military issues, but it will bring two countries with a shared desire to challenge the West closer together.

Iran has already supplied Russia with self-detonating "Shahed" drones that Moscow fires on Ukraine in nightly barrages, according to Ukrainian and Western officials. Sitting next to Putin in the Kremlin after signing the treaty, Pezeshkian called for a political settlement to end the nearly three-year conflict.

Trump's incoming envoy Keith Kellogg spoke about returning to a policy of 'maximum pressure' on Iran during an event Saturday in Paris.

Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are crafting a wide-ranging sanctions strategy to facilitate a Russia-Ukraine diplomatic accord in the coming months while at the same time squeezing Iran and Venezuela,

Donald Trump’s victory has now set expectations for how he’ll approach foreign policy, writes TIME columnist Ian Bremmer