On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the involvement of external powers in the conflict with Iran was leading the world towards significant peril.
During a visit from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi in Moscow, he stated that the US bombing of his nation was unjustified and that Moscow was attempting to assist the Iranian people, according to a Reuters report.
On Sunday morning, the US launched large bunker-buster bombs on three Iranian nuclear facilities, intervening in Israel’s conflict, in an operation that prompted pressing inquiries regarding the status of Tehran’s nuclear program and the potential reaction of its diminished military.
Khamenei had asked for assistance from Putin
Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had earlier dispatched his foreign minister to Moscow to seek more assistance from President Vladimir Putin following the biggest US military operation against the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution that occurred over the weekend.
Although Putin had criticized the Israeli strikes, he had not yet addressed the U.S. assaults on Iranian nuclear facilities, but he did urge for calm last week and proposed Moscow’s assistance as a mediator regarding the nuclear program.
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Earlier, Iranian sources informed Reuters that the country is dissatisfied with the level of support from Russia thus far and seeks greater backing from Putin in its stance against Israel and the United States. The sources did not provide details on the type of support Tehran sought.
Russia- A Longtime Ally of Iran
Russia, a long-time friend of Tehran, influences Iran’s nuclear talks with the West as a veto-holding U.N. Security Council member and signatory to a previous nuclear agreement that Trump discarded in his initial term in 2018.
As per an AP report, Russia is prepared to assist Iran in multiple ways, contingent on Tehran’s requests, stated Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday.
Peskov stated that Russia has clearly expressed its position on the Iran-Israel conflict, describing it as a significant means of backing Tehran.
“Everything depends on what Iran needs,” Peskov said in response to a question at a briefing. “We have offered our mediation efforts. This is concrete.”
