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

Russian President Vladimir Putin is traveling to Tehran, Tuesday, for meetings with Iranian and Turkish officials, the Kremlin claimed, after warnings from the United States that Iran could provide Russia with drones for its war against Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed Putin will show up at a trilateral meeting with leaders from Iran and Turkey — the structure of meetings for Syria-linked talks.

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

Putin’s check out to Iran comes soon after the Biden administration explained Russian officials have frequented Iran’s Kashan Airfield on June 8 and July 15. 

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White Dwelling nationwide stability adviser Jake Sullivan claimed the Biden administration had information and facts that indicated the Iranian authorities was preparing to deliver Russia with “up to numerous hundred UAVs, like weapons-able UAVs on an expedited timeline.” 

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a conference on the country’s transport market by way of a movie backlink in Sochi, Russia May well 24, 2022. 
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UAVs are unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.

“We assess an formal Russian delegation not long ago acquired a showcase of Iranian assault-capable UAVs. We are releasing these visuals captured in June showing Iranian UAVs that the Russian government delegation observed that working day,” Sullivan claimed. “This suggests ongoing Russian interest in obtaining Iranian attack-capable UAVs.”

Sullivan also said the U.S. understands that the visit in June was the initial time a Russian delegation “has frequented this airfield for this sort of a showcase.”

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

Iranian President Ebrahim Reisi will make a speech during his pay a visit to to an exhibition organized by the Atomic Electricity Agency of Iran on the occasion of the National Nuclear Technologies Working day at the Intercontinental Meeting Centre in Tehran, Iran on April 9, 2022.
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“This kind of claims parallel with Biden’s take a look at to occupied Palestine, or Israel, are in way of political intentions and functions,” Amirabdollahian stated, in accordance Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s internet site. “We oppose any shift that could guide to continuation and intensifying conflicts.”

Iran has provided UAVs to its Center Japanese allies, and introduced Friday its first naval drone-carrying division in the Indian Ocean.

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

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks through the Higher Faculty Learners Study Undertaking Closing Levels of competition and Award Ceremony at Bestepe Peopleâs Congress and Lifestyle Centre in Ankara, Turkiye on June 2, 2022.
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“Be it drone product sales or sanctions busting, Washington needs to expose and sanction the connective nodes concerning Tehran and Moscow,” Taleblu told Fox Information. 

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The U.S. broadened its community of sanctions earlier this thirty day period after Tehran attempted to skirt U.S.-sanctioned Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products and solutions by marketing the banned goods to East Asia. 

“Whilst the leaders are reportedly conference to discuss Syria less than the Astana course of action, what is very likely bringing Khamenei, Putin, and Erdogan with each other is their shared desire in routine survival and what the other autocrats can do to aid with that,” Taleblu said. 

Meanwhile, Point out Department spokesman Ned Price tag reported Monday that the Biden administration “will continue to look at incredibly closely all of our sanctions remain in drive.” 

“Any transaction of this type would implicate a selection of the sanctions that we have on the textbooks and presumably a variety of sanctions that nations around the world about the environment have on the books,” Value said, with regards to the drones. “So this is one thing that we will continue to observe.” 

Putin’s pay a visit to to Iran will come immediately after President Biden frequented Israel and Saudi Arabia. Biden, in Saudi Arabia about the weekend, talked about implementing missile and protection capabilities in the Center East as a counter to Iranian drone and missile attacks.

Neither Saudi Arabia nor Israel have joined international efforts to punish Putin around his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. 

Fox News’ Ben Evansky, Caitlin McFall and The Affiliated Press contributed to this report.