In March, Russia announced that it, together with China and Iran, was conducting joint naval exercises in the Gulf of Oman. This is one of many recent events connecting these three states, and their growing alliance has major implications for the U.S. Joint China, Iran, and Russia naval exercises, January 23, 2022, CGTN TV, China MEMRI's Russian Media Studies Project (RMSP), launched in 2016, is closely monitoring this and other developments in the region, providing an invaluable window to understanding it.