Putin to travel to Tehran for meetings with Iranian, Turkish leaders

Russian President Vladimir Putin is traveling to Tehran, Tuesday, for conferences with Iranian and Turkish officials, the Kremlin reported, following warnings from the United States that Iran could deliver Russia with drones for its war in opposition to Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained Putin will go to a trilateral assembly with leaders from Iran and Turkey — the format of conferences for Syria-linked talks.

While in Tehran, Putin is envisioned to have a separate assembly with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Putin’s take a look at to Iran comes right after the Biden administration claimed Russian officers have visited Iran’s Kashan Airfield on June 8 and July 15. 

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White Home countrywide stability adviser Jake Sullivan reported the Biden administration had data that indicated the Iranian governing administration was making ready to supply Russia with “up to quite a few hundred UAVs, like weapons-able UAVs on an expedited timeline.” 

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the country’s transportation sector through a video clip link in Sochi, Russia Could 24, 2022. 
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UAVs are unmanned aerial autos, or drones.

“We evaluate an official Russian delegation not long ago gained a showcase of Iranian attack-capable UAVs. We are releasing these visuals captured in June exhibiting Iranian UAVs that the Russian governing administration delegation saw that day,” Sullivan said. “This implies ongoing Russian curiosity in attaining Iranian assault-able UAVs.”

Sullivan also said the U.S. understands that the check out in June was the very first time a Russian delegation “has visited this airfield for these types of a showcase.”

But Iran’s International Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said in a mobile phone phone with his Ukrainian counterpart on Friday that the U.S. accusations about Iranian drones becoming acquired by Russia for war in opposition to Ukraine are “baseless.”

Iranian President Ebrahim Reisi will make a speech through his pay a visit to to an exhibition structured by the Atomic Electrical power Agency of Iran on the occasion of the Countrywide Nuclear Technologies Day at the Intercontinental Conference Center in Tehran, Iran on April 9, 2022.
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“This sort of claims parallel with Biden’s check out to occupied Palestine, or Israel, are in course of political intentions and reasons,” Amirabdollahian said, in accordance Iran’s International Ministry’s web site. “We oppose any move that could guide to continuation and intensifying conflicts.”

Iran has provided UAVs to its Middle Eastern allies, and announced Friday its initial naval drone-carrying division in the Indian Ocean.

Senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Behnam Ben Taleblu warned Monday that a rising Russian-Iranian partnership could suggest “difficulty for Washington.” 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks in the course of the Higher College College students Investigation Venture Last Competition and Award Ceremony at Bestepe Peopleâs Congress and Lifestyle Heart in Ankara, Turkiye on June 2, 2022.
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“Be it drone sales or sanctions busting, Washington desires to expose and sanction the connective nodes between Tehran and Moscow,” Taleblu advised Fox News. 

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The U.S. broadened its network of sanctions before this thirty day period following Tehran attempted to skirt U.S.-sanctioned Iranian petroleum and petrochemical merchandise by marketing the banned items to East Asia. 

“Though the leaders are reportedly meeting to focus on Syria less than the Astana system, what is likely bringing Khamenei, Putin, and Erdogan with each other is their shared curiosity in routine survival and what the other autocrats can do to support with that,” Taleblu claimed. 

In the meantime, State Office spokesman Ned Price tag said Monday that the Biden administration “will continue on to observe pretty closely all of our sanctions keep on being in power.” 

“Any transaction of this kind would implicate a range of the sanctions that we have on the textbooks and presumably a quantity of sanctions that international locations all-around the world have on the books,” Cost mentioned, regarding the drones. “So this is one thing that we’ll go on to watch.” 

Putin’s pay a visit to to Iran will come immediately after President Biden visited Israel and Saudi Arabia. Biden, in Saudi Arabia more than the weekend, mentioned implementing missile and protection capabilities in the Middle East as a counter to Iranian drone and missile attacks.

Neither Saudi Arabia nor Israel have joined global efforts to punish Putin in excess of his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. 

Fox News’ Ben Evansky, Caitlin McFall and The Related Push contributed to this report.