Russia's Putin To Visit Tehran For Nuclear Talks: Media Reports

[Purveyor]

MOSCOW | Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:27am EDT

(Reuters) - Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet Iran's newly elected president in Tehran next month to discuss restarting talks on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, Russian and Iranian media reports said on Wednesday.

The Russian newspaper Kommersant quoted a source close to the Iranian Foreign Ministry as saying President Putin would visit on August 12, days after Hassan Rouhani is inaugurated.

Iran's Mehr news agency said Putin would travel to Iran on August 16, without citing a source.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined comment on the reports. Putin last visited Iran in 2007 to attend a summit of states bordering the Caspian Sea.

World powers hope Iran's relatively moderate new leader will comply with demands for Tehran to scale back nuclear work which they suspect is aimed at enabling it to make bombs.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/24/us-iran-nuclear-idUSBRE96N0BR20130724

[gordianot]

1. In Russia's history from the time of the Czar's through the Soviet Union foreign policy eludes them.

The Czars long gone, the Soviets make a deal with a mad man and manage to win , now with the promise of following the high road they support maniacs in Syria with the promise of creating more maniacs in the Middle East. What makes them think they will do any better? Who do they think they are anyway American Neocons?