Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for a restrained response to Israel's suspected killing of the leader of Hamas, advising against attacks on Israeli civilians, two senior Iranian sources said.
The message, according to the sources, was delivered on Monday by Sergei Shoigu, a senior ally of the Kremlin leader, in meetings with top Iranian officials as the Islamic Republic weighs its response to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh.
Tehran also pressed Moscow for the delivery of Russian made Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets, the two Iranian sources, privy to the meeting in Tehran, the sources told Reuters.
In Moscow, the Kremlin did not respond to a request for comment. State-run RIA news agency reported on Tuesday that Shoigu said he discussed Haniyeh's killing on his Tehran visit.
The two sources with knowledge of the matter did not provide further details on the talks with Shoigu, who was defense minister before becoming the secretary of Russia's security council in May.
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@9RWR9F62yrs2Y
Iran backs Hamas who started this war by invading Israel. Israel has the right to defend it's country.
Israel assassinates a Hezbollah leader and the very Hamas negotiator it's been in talks with, but the problem is Iran? U.S. troops all over the world but especially Iraq are now in mortal danger. America's image has been damaged by the Israeli slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza.
@P4ndaEleanorDemocrat2yrs2Y
Is Israel allowed to launch strikes in every direction into other sovereign countries and perform assassinations in other countries and be immunized from any retaliation by US resources? That doesn’t seem like an alliance to me. I’m not sure what it is.
@StressedS0v3reignGreen2yrs2Y
Does America really want to get embroiled in a major war with Iran, a vast country of 90 million people some 7000 miles away so that Israel can continue to oppress the Palestinians and annex their land? Let's hope not.
@Lobby1stDanLibertarian2yrs2Y
Iran isn't trying to drive America out of the area. But Bibi is trying to drag America into a war with Iran and Team Biden/Harris are not putting up any resistance.
Netanyahu has brought us to this point where the U.S. is facing a major regional war. Netanyahu has refused and blocked every attempt to negotiate a cease-fire in the Gaza War and now has lit the tinder of a war with Iran with the assassinations of two top Hamas leaders.
Israel and Iran are playing a dangerous game. Netanyahu will try to drag the U.S. into a war as long as Biden is president. Widening the war will likely divide Dems and help Trump - things that Netanyahu wants. It is also Israel that attacked and killed both Iranian and Hamas military / political leaders on Iranian soil.
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