
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, on Thursday in Moscow, RIA news agency reported. Russia’s Interfax news agency reported that the meeting also involved Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, while the Iranian delegation included the head of ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russia on Wednesday that its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “would be safe” from the Zionist entity, but Moscow “should encourage Iranian forces quit Syria”, a senior Israeli official said. “They (Russia) have an active interest in seeing a stable Assad regime and we ...