SpaceWar.com reports: “Russian President Vladimir Putin held a surprise meeting with Ali Larijani, top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader on nuclear issues, to discuss Tehran’s nuclear programme in the Kremlin on Sunday.
Moscow has a cordial relationship with Iran’s clerical leadership and provides crucial backing for Tehran but did not swing forcefully behind its partner even after the United States joined Israel’s massive bombing campaign on Iran in June.
Larijani ‘conveyed assessments of the escalating situation in the Middle East and around the Iranian nuclear programme’, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of the unannounced meeting.
Putin had expressed Russia’s ‘well-known positions on how to stabilize the situation in the region and on the political settlement of the Iranian nuclear programme’, he added…”
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