Russian President Vladimir Putin held a shock assembly with Ali Larijani, top adviser to Iran’s supreme chief on nuclear points, to debate Tehran’s nuclear programme within the Kremlin on Sunday (July 20, 2025).
Moscow has a cordial relationship with Iran’s clerical management and gives essential backing for Tehran however didn’t swing forcefully behind its accomplice even after the U.S. joined Israel’s huge bombing marketing campaign on Iran in June.
Mr. Larijani “conveyed assessments of the escalating situation in the Middle East [West Asia] and around the Iranian nuclear programme”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned of the unannounced assembly.
Mr. Putin had expressed Russia’s “well-known positions on how to stabilise the situation in the region and on the political settlement of the Iranian nuclear programme”, he added.
Separately, a German diplomatic supply mentioned on Sunday (July 20, 2025) that Britain, France and Germany are planning to carry contemporary talks with Iran on its nuclear programme within the coming days.
Iran’s Tasnim information company additionally reported that Tehran had agreed to carry talks with the three European nations, citing an unnamed supply.
Last week, Russia slammed a narrative by U.S. information outlet Axios, citing nameless sources that mentioned Mr. Putin had “encouraged” Iran to just accept a cope with the United States that might stop the Islamic republic from enriching uranium.
Iran has persistently denied looking for a nuclear weapon, whereas defending its “legitimate rights” to the peaceable use of atomic power.
