Following the largest US military assault against the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution, Iran’s supreme leader dispatched his foreign minister to Moscow on Monday to request additional assistance from Russia.
Israel and US President Donald Trump have openly discussed overthrowing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and changing the government, a move that Russia worries might plunge the Middle East into chaos.
Putin has called for calm and offered Moscow’s services as a mediator over the nuclear program, but he has not yet spoken on the US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites, although denouncing the Israeli strikes.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was scheduled to give, a senior source told Reuters.