Putin Forges Ties With Iran’s Supreme Leader in Tehran Talks

Putin Forges Ties With Iran’s Supreme Leader in Tehran Talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi meet before a summit of leaders from the guarantor states of the Astana process, designed to find a peace settlement in the Syrian conflict, in Tehran, Iran, on July 19, 2022. (President Website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuters)
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LONDON/DUBAI—Russian President Vladimir Putin had talks with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran on Tuesday, the Kremlin leader’s first trip outside the former Soviet Union since Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.

In Tehran, Putin also held his first face-to-face meeting since the invasion with a NATO leader, Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan, to discuss a deal that would resume Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports as well as the conflict in northern Syria.