Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country is acting as an intermediary between Tel Aviv and Tehran after Israel formally turned to Moscow for assistance in peace establishment.
He said Israel wants to avoid any future confrontations with Tehran, yet he demanded that Tehran do the same. Putin said Moscow is working closely with Tehran to defuse tensions around the Iranian nuclear programme.
Russia is also playing a constructive role in reviving “constructive cooperation” between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Russian President said that Israel depends on Moscow’s close partnership with Iran to convey messages to the supreme leader and the Iranian government through well-established diplomatic channels.
“We continue our trust-based contacts with Israel and receive signals from the Israeli leadership asking us to convey to our Iranian friends that Israel, too, is committed to further de-escalation and is not interested in any form of confrontation,” Putin said.
Moscow believes that constructive and responsible diplomacy is the only way to resolve the issue linked to the Iranian nuclear issue, he added. Earlier, Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone to discuss a possible settlement to the Gaza war and the peace proposal by US President Donald Trump.
Both leaders discussed the Iranian nuclear programme and the prevailing security situation in Syria.
Russia offered its assistance in establishing dialogue between Israel and Iran following the recent hostilities between the two nations. In July, Putin told Netanyahu that Moscow was ready “to contribute in every possible way to finding a negotiated solution” to the tensions surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme.
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