Russia Says it Wants to Help U.S.-Iran Find Peace

Both Iran and Russia have been described by the neocons in Washington — like Speaker Mike Johnson — as the new “AXIS OF EVIL.”

Russia informed the Trump administration that it stands ready to help ease tensions between Washington and Tehran and “believes the U.S. and Iran should resolve all problems through negotiations” — which would be a breakthrough given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s push for war.

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The overture from Russia was first reported by Bloomberg.

The report, citing individuals with knowledge of the situation, said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov discussed the issue during their meeting last month in Saudi Arabia.

Yury Ushakov, foreign policy aide for Russian President Vladimir Putin, addressed the meeting in Riyadh on Tuesday, and said, “We discussed the situation around Iran, yes. And we agreed to hold separate talks on this matter,” according to RT.

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Last month, The Wall Street Journal, citing two people familiar with the intelligence, reported that the Israelis see Trump as a more willing participant than his predecessor if they decide to carry out strikes on Iran’s nuclear centers and there is a likelihood that Tel Aviv will push the new president to support these attacks.

Israel has been trying to position itself as though it is in a strong position to take such strikes because of its extensive campaigns against Hamas, Hezbollah, and the collapse of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Iran and Russia have seen their relationship improve during the Joe Biden years and, just before Trump took office, signed a 20-year cooperation agreement that had military implications that some analysts said came up short because it did not offer a NATO-like guarantee that an attack on one is an attack on all.

Both Iran and Russia have been described by the neocons in Washington — like Speaker Mike Johnson — as the new “AXIS OF EVIL.”

As a candidate, Trump encouraged Israelt to carry out strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, but Russia warned against such an escalation.

Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, said at the time that the Kremlin “repeatedly warned and continues to warn, to caution (Israel) against even hypothetically considering the possibility of a strike on (Iranian) nuclear facilities and nuclear infrastructure,” according to Iran’s IRNA. “This would be a catastrophic development and a complete negation of all existing principles in the area of ​​ensuring nuclear safety.”

Iran has promised that its response to any Israeli escalation will be asymmetric.

Russia has consistently called out how international rules do not apply to Israel.

In April, shortly after Iran carried out retaliatory strikes in response to Israel’s attack on its consulate in Damascus, Vasily Nebenzia, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, mocked an emergency UN Security Council meeting held in response.

He said the entire spectacle was “almost embarrassing to watch.”

“The steps undertaken by Iran became a reaction to the disgraceful inaction by this council, and a response to the blatant Israeli attack on its consulate in Damascus,” Nebenzia said. “If Western missions were under attack, you would not hesitate to retaliate and then you would be proving your case in this Security Council.”

Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, also called out Western hypocrisy when criticizing Moscow’s occupation of the Donbas while giving a stamp of approval for Israel’s land grab in the Golan Heights.

Trump revised U.S. policy on the matter in 2019 to officially recognize the Golan as belonging to Israel. The UN Security Council said in 1981 that Israel’s control over the Golan Heights “is null and void and without international legal effect.”

Israel says it needs to control the region for its own security.

Lavrov told reporters in 2023 that if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in power in Ukraine and NATO continues its presence in the country, control over the Donbas is of “real importance to Russia’s security.”

(PHOTO: Nantaz’s nuclear facility. Credit: Atomic Energy Organization of Iran)