Delegations from Russia and the U.S. involved in nuclear negotiations with Iran held talks ahead of a summit between President Biden and Vladimir Putin.
Biden and Putin agree the nations’ relationship is at a low point before their summit. Trump sends the ex-KGB chief ‘warmest regards.’Diplomats from China, Germany, France, Russia and Britain held joint talks with Iran on Saturday and multiple bilateral meetings afterward at a hotel in the center of the Austrian capital.
Matthew Rojansky, director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington, said Russia was keen to curb some of Iran’s ambitions. “Moscow still prefers to see Tehran checked in its aspiration to develop a weapon, but is much less motivated when it comes to checking Iran’s regional ambitions and its broader global misbehavior,” he told the AP.
“At the same time, Russia has a balancing act to perform in Syria, where Iran’s force of arms on the ground could become a problem for Russian ambitions.”
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