{"id":78351,"date":"2025-06-23T12:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=78351"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:41:59","slug":"iran-foreign-minister-to-meet-president-putin-today-amid-us-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/iran-foreign-minister-to-meet-president-putin-today-amid-us-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran foreign minister to meet President Putin today amid US strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Iranian Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/president-trump-a-advocate-of-peace-any-iranian-attack-will-face-strong-response-pentagon-officials\/\">Abbas Araghchi<\/a> was due to hold \u201cimportant\u201d talks with key ally Vladimir Putin on Monday, 48 hours after a major US attack on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow is a crucial backer of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ji-announces-nationwide-protest-against-us-strikes-on-iran\/\">Tehran<\/a>, but has not swung forcefully behind its partner since Israel launched a wave of attacks on June 13, strikes that triggered Iran to respond with missiles and drones.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has condemned the Israeli and US strikes, it has not offered military help, and has downplayed its obligations under a sweeping strategic partnership agreement signed with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this new dangerous situation \u2026 our consultations with Russia can certainly be of great importance,\u201d Russian state media reported Araghchi as saying after landing in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The official IRNA news agency reported Sunday that Araghchi would \u201chold consultations with the president and other senior officials of Russia regarding regional and international developments following the military aggression by the United States and the Zionist regime against Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin initially pitched himself as a possible mediator between Iran and Israel, but on Friday said he was only \u201csuggesting ideas\u201d, after US President Donald Trump pushed back against a role for the Kremlin leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are by no means seeking to act as a mediator, we are simply suggesting ideas,\u201d Putin said at an economic forum in Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they turn out to be attractive to both sides, we will only be happy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s foreign ministry on Saturday condemned the US strikes as \u201cirresponsible,\u201d after having previously warned against military intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was due to hold \u201cimportant\u201d talks with key ally Vladimir Putin on Monday, 48 hours after a major US attack on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities. Moscow is a crucial backer of Tehran, but has not swung forcefully behind its partner since Israel launched a wave of attacks on June 13, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":78352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4785,17184],"class_list":["post-78351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-president-putin","tag-iran-foreign-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78355,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78351\/revisions\/78355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}