Shoigu's Meetings in Tehran, Potential Putin Offer for Mediation

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu told reporters in Baku, Azerbaijan on Aug. 7 while in Tehran the day before, he met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Akbar Ahmadian and Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri in Tehran on Monday, Aug. 5. “Of course, the issues that were addressed at the meeting with the new president and with the secretary of the Security Council, covered the whole world. The whole range of issues, starting with Syria. Certainly, the disturbing developments on Lebanon’s border with Israel were on the agenda. Of course, the recent tragic events that took place in Tehran were touched upon. It was impossible to bypass this topic.”