MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has agreed to assist U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration in communicating with Iran on various issues, including on Tehran’s nuclear programme and its support for regional anti-U.S. proxies, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
The report, which was picked up by Russian state media, quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that “Russia believes that the United States and Iran should resolve all problems through negotiations” and that Moscow “is ready to do everything in its power to achieve this.”
Trump last month restored his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran which includes efforts to drive its oil exports down to zero in order to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Iran denies any such intention.
Russia has deepened its ties with the Islamic Republic since the start of the Ukraine war, and signed a strategic cooperation treaty with Iran in January.
(Reporting by Reuters; writing by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
