MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin advised Iran’s international minister on Monday (Jun 23) there was no justification for the US bombing of his nation and that Moscow was attempting to assist the Iranian folks.
Putin hosted Iranian International Minister Abbas Araqchi in Moscow two days after US President Donald Trump despatched US bomber planes to strike Iran’s three main nuclear sites.
“The completely unprovoked aggression in opposition to Iran has no foundation and no justification,” Putin advised Araqchi in televised feedback.
“For our half, we’re making efforts to help the Iranian folks,” he added.
“I’m very glad that you’re in Moscow at present, this may give us the chance to debate all these urgent points and assume collectively about how we might get out of at present’s scenario.”
Araqchi advised Putin that Iran was conducting respectable self-defence and thanked Russia for condemning the US actions. He conveyed finest needs to Putin from Iran’s supreme chief and president.
“Russia is at present on the proper aspect of historical past and worldwide regulation,” Araqchi mentioned.
It was unclear, nevertheless, what Russia may do to assist Iran, an necessary ally with which Putin signed a strategic cooperation treaty in January. That settlement didn’t embrace a mutual defence clause.
Earlier than Saturday’s US strikes, Moscow had warned that US navy intervention might destabilise your complete area and plunge it into the “abyss”.
Requested what Russia was able to do to assist Tehran, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned: “All of it is dependent upon what Iran wants.” He mentioned the truth that Moscow had supplied to mediate within the disaster was itself a type of assist.
