Iran’s top diplomat in Russia as Tehran intensifies efforts to end the war

Pakistan and Oman stay progressive successful backchannel efforts to forestall a instrumentality to unfastened US-Israel warfare connected Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has arrived successful Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin, arsenic Tehran intensifies diplomatic efforts to extremity the United States-Israel warfare connected Iran.

Upon his accomplishment connected Monday, Araghchi told Iranian media that helium had travelled to Russia “with the purpose of continuing adjacent consultations betwixt Tehran and Moscow connected determination and planetary issues”.

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The diplomat said his gathering with Putin “will beryllium a bully accidental to sermon developments successful the warfare and reappraisal the latest situation”.

“I americium assured that these consultations and coordination betwixt the 2 countries successful this respect volition beryllium of peculiar importance,” helium added.

The sojourn follows an earlier gathering successful Muscat with Omani officials, arsenic Iran seeks to rally determination and planetary enactment for renewed negotiations.

Washington and Tehran agreed to a impermanent ceasefire connected April 8 pursuing much than a period of warring that began with US and Israeli attacks connected Iran.

The truce, mediated by Pakistan, has since been strained by disputes implicit shipping done the Strait of Hormuz and a US blockade connected Iranian ports; meanwhile, a parallel struggle involving Israel and Lebanon besides threatens to complicate negotiations.

Russia’s relation successful diplomacy

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi said Russia was apt to play a cardinal relation successful immoderate adjacent signifier of the conflict. “We person a script for diplomatic colony and different for confrontation,” Asadi said.

“Russia is going to play a cardinal relation erstwhile it comes to both, truthful Iran’s FM is determination for consultations implicit astir most apt both. We cognize that Iran has respective demands and is trying to prioritise them based connected the situation. One is evidently the concern astatine the Strait of Hormuz, the anticipation of the hold of the ceasefire, oregon different confrontation.”

The diplomatic propulsion comes arsenic US President Donald Trump scrapped plans to nonstop Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and advisor Jared Kushner to Pakistan’s superior Islamabad for talks with Iran connected Saturday, citing “tremendous infighting and confusion” wrong Tehran’s leadership.

Meanwhile, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has reiterated that Tehran volition not participate negotiations portion the blockade remains successful place.

It comes arsenic the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said forces were continuing to instrumentality the blockade, preventing vessels from entering oregon leaving Iranian waters.

“American forces person directed 38 ships to crook astir oregon instrumentality to port,” CENTCOM said connected X.

Trump said Iran had “offered a lot, but not enough”, portion adding connected Sunday that Iranian leaders “can travel to us, oregon they tin telephone us” if they wanted to resume talks.

Araghchi earlier described discussions successful Islamabad arsenic “very productive” and said they included a reappraisal of “the circumstantial conditions nether which negotiations betwixt Iran and the US could continue”.

Reporting from Islamabad, Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid said Pakistani officials remained hopeful that diplomacy could inactive succeed.

“According to 1 diplomatic source, caller events person served arsenic a catalyst, [reinforcing the view] that determination needs to beryllium a imperishable extremity to hostilities,” helium said.

“We are being told present successful Islamabad that we are inching towards a model of sorts, which volition supply a inheritance to which each of these sides tin travel to an statement – and not conscionable the Iranians and the Americans, but fundamentally the Gulf countries arsenic well.”