Irans supreme leader sent his foreign minister to Moscow on Monday to ask President Vladimir Putin for more assistance from Russia after the biggest U.S.
military action versus the Islamic Republic since the 1979 transformation over the weekend.U.S.
President Donald Trump and Israel have actually openly hypothesized about eliminating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and about program change, an action Russia fears might sink the Middle East into the abyss.While Putin has condemned the Israeli strikes, he has yet to talk about the U.S.
attacks on Iranian nuclear websites though he last week called for calm and provided Moscows services as a conciliator over the nuclear programme.A senior source told Reuters that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was due to provide a letter from Khamenei to Putin, looking for the latters support.Iran has actually not been impressed with Russias assistance so far, Iranian sources informed Reuters, and the country desires Putin to do more to back it against Israel and the United States.
The sources did not elaborate on what help Tehran wanted.The Kremlin stated that Putin would get Araqchi however did not say what would be discussed.Araqchi was quoted by the state TASS news agency as saying that Iran and Russia were collaborating their positions on the current escalation in the Middle East.Putin has actually repeatedly offered to moderate in between the United States and Iran, and stated that he had actually conveyed Moscows concepts on resolving the dispute to them while guaranteeing Irans continued access to civil nuclear energy.The Kremlin chief last week refused to discuss the possibility that Israel and the United States would kill Khamenei.Putin said that Israel had actually offered Moscow guarantees that Russian experts assisting to develop 2 more reactors at the Bushehr nuclear reactor in Iran would not be hurt in air strikes.Russia, a longstanding ally of Tehran, plays a role in Irans nuclear negotiations with the West as a veto-wielding U.N.
Security Council member and a signatory to an earlier nuclear deal Trump abandoned throughout his very first term in 2018.
Putin, whose army is fighting a significant war of attrition in Ukraine for the fourth year, has actually so far shown little hunger in public for diving into a fight with the United States over Iran simply as Trump seeks to fix ties with Moscow.Source: Reuters-- Agencies