Russian President Vladimir Putin just held a high-stakes bilateral meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek. The optics and message were unmistakable.
Archiv: Bishkek (city)
Iran president offers US olive branch before Putin meeting at SCO summit
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„I state explicitly that if the United States returns to its commitments under the aforementioned memorandum of understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take reciprocal action,“ Pezeshkian said, according to the Iran presidency‘s website.
The memorandum aimed at ending hostilities between Tehran and Washington that began in late February with US and Israeli attacks on Iran that killed former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The deal, meant to set the stage for final peace talks, later collapsed, with both sides accusing each other of violating its terms.
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The two leaders met on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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ussian President Vladimir Putin will meet the leaders of China, India, Turkey and Iran at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek next week, his foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said in Moscow on Friday.
Kyrgyzstan hosts Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit
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Meeting with President of Iran Hassan Rouhani
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Meeting of SCO leaders
Vladimir Putin attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.
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