The Kremlin says it has agreed to act as a mediator between US President Donald Trump’s administration and Iran on negotiations around Tehran’s nuclear program and its support for terror groups seeking Israel’s annihilation, Bloomberg News reports.
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the United States and Iran should resolve their mutual issues through talks and that Russia is ready to do everything in its power to help bring this about, state news agency RIA reports.
The news is potentially deeply worrying for Israel, which has sought Trump’s support for a credible military threat against Iran aimed at pressuring it to abandon its nuclear ambitions, but may now be stymied by the US leader’s increasingly cozy relationship with Putin.
Russia and Iran have expanded military ties in recent years, with a report earlier today showing that Russian officials had visited Iranian missile production and air defense sites twice last year, both times within weeks of Tehran launching massive missile barrages at Israeli cities. Moscow also hosted officials from the Hamas terror group following the October 7, 2023, massacre and has expressed support for Iran’s Hezbollah proxy, forcefully condemning Israel for killing terror leader Hassan Nasrallah in September
According to Bloomberg, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio approached Russia about having it broker a deal with Iran during talks in Saudi Arabia last month at which officials from Washington and Moscow hashed over the fate of Ukraine, an independent country. A short time later, Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his Iranian counterpart in Tehran to discuss details of the discussions in Riyadh, Bloomberg reports.
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