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Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered antithetic options to mediate successful the Iran struggle and these proposals are inactive on the table, the Kremlin said connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026).
“From the very opening of this situation, adjacent earlier the subject signifier began, President Putin has projected assorted options for our mediation and bully offices that could assistance trim tensions. Many of these proposals are inactive connected the table,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“Russia is acceptable to assistance to the champion of its quality and volition beryllium happy to bash so, but you cognize that this requires aggregate understandings and aggregate agreements, truthful we’ll person to beryllium a small patient.”
Mr. Peskov was speaking a time aft Mr. Putin spoke by telephone to U.S. President Donald Trump and, according to the Kremlin, shared proposals aimed astatine ending the warfare successful Iran quickly.
Mr. Peskov declined to elaborate connected the contented of the proposals.
Mr. Trump, for his part, told reporters connected Monday (March 9, 2026) that Mr. Putin “wants to beryllium helpful” with the Iran conflict, but helium said helium told the Kremlin person that “You could beryllium much adjuvant by getting the Ukraine-Russia warfare implicit with.”
Russia connected U.S.-Israel onslaught connected Iran
Russia, which has a strategical concern pact with Iran, has condemned the warfare that the U.S. and Israel launched against the Islamic Republic connected February 28. As a large vigor exporter, it has, however, benefited from the resulting boost to lipid prices
Mr. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff said astatine the play helium had asked Russia not to proviso quality to Iran, aft the Washington Post said Moscow was providing Tehran with targeting information to assistance it onslaught U.S. forces in the West Asia.
Mr. Peskov said Russia was not commenting connected specified reports, and declined to accidental if the contented had travel up during the Putin-Trump call.
Asked astir Mr. Witkoff’s statement, helium said: “I tin lone accidental that Steve Witkoff is so successful changeless interaction with his Russian interlocutors, and this transmission of connection does let them to convey signals to each different connected the astir sensitive issues.”
