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

Russian President Vladimir Putin is touring to Tehran, Tuesday, for meetings with Iranian and Turkish officials, the Kremlin explained, right after warnings from the United States that Iran could deliver Russia with drones for its war versus Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Putin will attend a trilateral meeting with leaders from Iran and Turkey — the structure of meetings for Syria-connected talks.

Though in Tehran, Putin is predicted to have a independent conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Putin’s pay a visit to to Iran arrives just after the Biden administration reported Russian officers have frequented Iran’s Kashan Airfield on June 8 and July 15. 

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White Household national security adviser Jake Sullivan reported the Biden administration had info that indicated the Iranian federal government was making ready to give Russia with “up to many hundred UAVs, such as weapons-able UAVs on an expedited timeline.” 

UAVs are unmanned aerial automobiles, or drones.

“We evaluate an formal Russian delegation not long ago gained a showcase of Iranian assault-able UAVs. We are releasing these photographs captured in June exhibiting Iranian UAVs that the Russian governing administration delegation observed that working day,” Sullivan said. “This indicates ongoing Russian curiosity in getting Iranian assault-able UAVs.”

Sullivan also explained the U.S. understands that the pay a visit to in June was the 1st time a Russian delegation “has frequented this airfield for this kind of a showcase.”

But Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said in a cellphone simply call with his Ukrainian counterpart on Friday that the U.S. accusations about Iranian drones staying obtained by Russia for war towards Ukraine are “baseless.”

“This type of promises parallel with Biden’s visit to occupied Palestine, or Israel, are in route of political intentions and uses,” Amirabdollahian stated, according Iran’s Overseas Ministry’s website. “We oppose any transfer that could lead to continuation and intensifying conflicts.”

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

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

“Be it drone income or sanctions busting, Washington requires to expose and sanction the connective nodes concerning Tehran and Moscow,” Taleblu explained to Fox News. 

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The U.S. broadened its network of sanctions earlier this month right after Tehran tried to skirt U.S.-sanctioned Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products and solutions by advertising the banned goods to East Asia. 

“Though the leaders are reportedly assembly to focus on Syria less than the Astana procedure, what is most likely bringing Khamenei, Putin, and Erdogan jointly is their shared fascination in regime survival and what the other autocrats can do to aid with that,” Taleblu explained. 

Meanwhile, State Section spokesman Ned Value reported Monday that the Biden administration “will proceed to watch pretty carefully all of our sanctions keep on being in power.” 

“Any transaction of this sort would implicate a range of the sanctions that we have on the books and presumably a variety of sanctions that international locations about the world have on the textbooks,” Price stated, pertaining to the drones. “So this is some thing that we are going to keep on to observe.” 

Putin’s take a look at to Iran comes soon after President Biden visited Israel and Saudi Arabia. Biden, in Saudi Arabia more than the weekend, talked over employing missile and defense abilities in the Middle East as a counter to Iranian drone and missile attacks.

Neither Saudi Arabia nor Israel have joined global attempts to punish Putin over his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. 

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