Putin meets Khamenei’s prime adviser Larijani for nuclear talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a shock assembly with Ali Larijani, prime 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 supplies essential backing for Tehran however didn’t swing forcefully behind its companion even after the U.S. joined Israel’s huge bombing marketing campaign on Iran in June.

Mr. Larijani “conveyed assessments of the escalating state of affairs within the Center East [West Asia] and across the Iranian nuclear programme”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned of the unannounced assembly.

Mr. Putin had expressed Russia’s “well-known positions on learn how to stabilise the state of affairs within the area and on the political settlement of the Iranian nuclear programme”, he added.

Individually, a German diplomatic supply mentioned on Sunday (July 20, 2025) that Britain, France and Germany are planning to carry recent 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 international locations, citing an unnamed supply.

Final week, Russia slammed a narrative by U.S. information outlet Axios, citing nameless sources that mentioned Mr. Putin had “inspired” Iran to just accept a cope with the US that will forestall the Islamic republic from enriching uranium.

Iran has persistently denied searching for a nuclear weapon, whereas defending its “respectable rights” to the peaceable use of atomic power.