Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov discussed international efforts to resolve the situation around Iran's nuclear programme with Iranian ambassador Kazem Jalali, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

What is the logic of returning to a deal with Iran that America quit seven years ago? Excitement in some Washington quarters over the prospect of renewed negotiations with the Tehran regime could soon prove premature.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has issued a warning to "bullying" Western powers and their calls for negotiations.

Iranian Deputy Minister of Transport and head of the Civil Aviation Organization, Hossein Pourfarzaneh, met in Moscow with Dmitry Yadrov, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Transport and head of Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Russia has offered to mediate between Washington and Tehran to defuse tensions over Iran’s nuclear programme, a media report said on Wednesday. Kremlin officials pledged to do everything possible to peacefully address issues around Tehran’s nuclear programme, the Reuters news agency reported.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that future talks between Russia and the United States would include discussions on Iran’s nuclear program, a subject it said had been “touched upon” in an initial round of U.

Israelis are hoping that Iran hawks in the Trump administration might moderate any tendency to go easy on Tehran.

Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi says Iran and Russia are determined to continue political and technical consultations on international and multilateral issues.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he wants to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran and sent a letter to its leadership this week suggesting talks with the Islamic Republic, which the West fears is rapidly nearing the capability to make atomic weapons.

"Cooperation between Tehran and Moscow had led to keeping Bashar al-Assad in power," Javad Heirannia, director of the Persian Gulf Studies at the Center for Scientific Research and Middle East ...