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The US reportedly rejected an offer made by Russia, where it would have stopped sharing location data with Iran if Washington agreed to terminate its intelligence deal with Ukraine.
According to a report by the Financial Times, President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, made the offer to his American counterparts Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at a meeting in Miami last week.
Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, has rejected the report as “fake” and warned of what he called a “massive fake media campaign to undermine progress" to weaken the ties between US and Russia.
How has Russia tried to mediate the Iran war?
Russi has, time and again, extended a helping hand to mediate between the US and Iran. Last week, Putin, in a phone call with President Donald Trump, presented a series of suggestions to help end the war with Iran. Kremlin said that Gulf players were receptive to these suggestions.
Those ideas reportedly included a proposal to transfer Iran’s enriched uranium to Russia, an option that Donald Trump rejected, according to a source familiar with the discussions and reporting by Axios. US and Israeli officials have argued that Tehran could potentially use the material to develop nuclear weapons.
“Trump understands that the options for him to come out in a positive manner in Iran are narrowing. And so the idea is that if he gets desperate enough, there’s an interest in Russia in making Trump look good,” the person said.
Russia helping Iran
Russia is reportedly providing intelligence to Iran regarding the location of US forces in West Asia.
Russia is providing Tehran with information that could help its forces locate American warships, radar or other communication systems. However, there is no indication of whether Moscow is providing direct Iranian missile or drone strikes.
According to Nicole Grajewski, an expert on Russia–Iran cooperation and an assistant professor at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, Iran has only a limited number of military satellites.
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