Lavrov and Araghchi meet at the BRICS summit in Rio

At the St Petersburg economic forum, Putin discussed Russian specialists working at Iran's Bushehr nuclear site and efforts to secure their safety amid the conflict.

Russia's foreign ministry condemned US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and urged a diplomatic response, warning of further regional destabilisation.

At an emergency UN Security Council meeting, Russia criticised US strikes and urged support for a draft condemning attacks on Iranian nuclear installations.

Araghchi met Putin at the Kremlin after US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. Putin condemned the attacks and expressed support for the Iranian people.

At the Primakov Readings forum in Moscow, Lavrov discussed the Iran crisis and criticised Western approaches to sovereignty, sanctions and the use of force.

Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Masoud Pezeshkian and briefed him on the Russia–United States summit in Alaska. The Kremlin readout also recorded discussion of bilateral cooperation, Iran’s nuclear...

The foreign ministers of Iran, Russia and China jointly challenged the European trio’s move to trigger the JCPOA snapback mechanism, calling it legally and procedurally flawed. This records the...

Mohammad Eslami, Iran’s vice-president and head of the Atomic Energy Organization, arrived in Moscow for discussions as the UN sanctions dispute intensified. The report establishes the visit but did...

Rosatom and Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation to build small nuclear power plants in Iran. The memorandum set a cooperation pathway; it was not...

The UN Security Council failed to adopt a draft resolution that would have continued sanctions relief under the nuclear agreement. Russia and China supported the draft, but it did not receive the...