By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Monday said that he is scheduled to visit Russia for “serious consultations”, and is also likely to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin hours after the US struck 3 Iranian nuclear facilities early on Sunday.
He was addressing a press conference in Istanbul, Araqch announced that he is going to visit Moscow on Monday, Mehr News reported.
Araqchi said that he will have serious consultations with the Russian leadership in the wake of the series of Israeli and now US attacks on Iran.
He said that holding a meeting with Russia’s President is among his visit’s plans.
Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali said that Tehran and Moscow have always preserved the level of higher consultations on the regional and international developments.
Jalali wrote on X “As Iran is grappling with a unjust war with the most vicious governments in all-time history of humanity”.
He revealed that Iran’s top diplomat will arrive in Moscow to hold high-profile talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He emphasized that Iran and Russia have always maintained a level of higher consultations in the regional and international developments.
Jalali underlined that Iran hoped that the ongoing negotiations between Iran and Russia would be constructive to help stabilize the current condition.
Russia on Sunday “strongly condemned” the “irresponsible” US follow-on strikes on nuclear sites in Iran as a “blatant violation of international law” by a permanent member of the UN Security Council, which will destabilize the region and deals a “substantial blow” to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime.
“They have significantly undermined both the credibility of the NPT and the integrity of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s monitoring and verification mechanisms that underpin it.”
Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement said “We expect the IAEA leadership to respond promptly, professionally, and transparently, avoiding vague language or efforts to hide behind political ‘equidistance.’ An unbiased and objective report from the Director General is required to be submitted for consideration at the Agency’s upcoming special session,”.
Moscow demanded that the UN Security Council must take a firm stance as well and “confrontational and destabilizing actions taken by the United States and Israel must be collectively rejected”.
It called “for an immediate end to aggression and for stepping up efforts to bring the situation back onto a peaceful, diplomatic track”.
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