The US-orchestrated post-modern coup’s neutralization of Pakistan’s previously promising geostrategic potential in the emerging Multipolar World Order coupled with India’s redoubling of its strategic partnership with Russia in defiance of the US compelled Russia to recalibrate its grand strategy with respect to the Ummah Pivot’s role therein, hence the replacement of Pakistan with Iran as its envisaged leader and this policy’s subsequent convergence with India.