Russia has offered to mediate between the United States and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program, a source briefed on discussions told Reuters on Tuesday. The Kremlin emphasized that it would do everything possible to seek a peaceful resolution.
According to Russia’s state-run Zvezda media, President Vladimir Putin agreed to mediate in nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington. However, the source familiar with the matter noted that Moscow had not been formally asked to act as an intermediary.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed Russia’s support for Iran, calling it a "partner and ally".
"President Putin believes that the Iranian nuclear issue should be resolved only by peaceful means," Peskov said.
The White House National Security Council stated that President Donald Trump remains open to talks with Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, but would negotiate "from a position of strength".
The U.N. nuclear watchdog has warned that Iran is accelerating uranium enrichment to 60% purity, close to weapons-grade levels. Western officials argue such levels are unnecessary for civilian energy programs.
The U.S. and European allies are considering invoking a "snapback" of sanctions against Tehran under the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA). The deadline to trigger this mechanism expires on October 18 next year.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reaffirming Washington’s commitment to countering Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
As tensions escalate in the Middle East, the viability of diplomatic negotiations remains uncertain, with Russia positioning itself as a potential mediator.
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China said it is ready to "continuously" boost strategic coordination with Moscow. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday that Beijing is prepared to help safeguard both countries’ security and development interests.
Russia’s health watchdog said on Friday it is monitoring an anthrax outbreak in Kazakhstan’s Akmola region, where two villages were quarantined after infections in cattle and local residents.
Belarus will play an active part in next month’s United Nations conference for landlocked developing countries in Turkmenistan, Foreign Minister Maksim Ryzhenkov told his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov during a telephone call on Thursday.
Thirty PKK members, half of them women, publicly destroyed their guns on Friday in Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah province, the clearest sign yet that the outlawed group is moving to dismantle its four-decade armed campaign.
Australian researchers have pioneered a low-cost and scalable plasma-based method to produce ammonia gas directly from air, offering a green alternative to the traditional fossil fuel-dependent Haber-Bosch process.
A series of earthquakes have struck Guatemala on Tuesday afternoon, leading authorities to advise residents to evacuate from buildings as a precaution against possible aftershocks.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,500-year-old city in northern Peru that likely served as a key trade hub connecting ancient coastal, Andean, and Amazonian cultures.
A deadly mass shooting early on Monday (7 July) in Philadelphia's Grays Ferry neighbourhood left three men dead and nine others wounded, including teenagers, as more than 100 shots were fired.
On July 4, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Khankendi, reaffirming the deep-rooted alliance between the two nations.
France recorded over 100 drowning deaths in just one month — a 58% rise from last year — as unusually high temperatures drove more people to water, public health officials say.
Germany’s public debt is projected to climb from 62.5% to 74% of GDP by 2030, driven by record defence and infrastructure spending, according to a report by the European rating agency Scope.
Migration offset natural decline for the fourth consecutive year, pushing the European Union’s population to an historic high of 450.4 million in 2024, according to Eurostat figures released on Friday.
The global oil market may be tighter than headline supply-demand figures suggest, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Friday, citing rising refinery activity and seasonal summer demand as key drivers of short-term market pressure.
China’s exports are expected to have grown 5% in June as manufacturers hurried goods abroad ahead of a 12 August deadline that could see the U.S. restore punitive tariffs, a Reuters survey of economists indicates.
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