Hours after the US struck Iranian nuclear facilities early on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said he is scheduled to visit Russia for "serious consultations", and is also likely to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said that indirect negotiations with the United States in Oman to revive the 2015 nuclear deal had become "much more serious and frank," as President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected US demands for Tehran to dismantle its nuclear infrastructure.
Iran argues that the sanctions that were reimposed by the US after it pulled out of the deal have cancelled out the economic benefits that were guaranteed under the deal, primarily its inability to export oil, one of the pillars of its economy.
