According to Al Jazeera, Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, stated on the 12th that US officials had requested Russian President Vladimir Putin to mediate and facilitate negotiations between the US and Iran. Ghalibaf said, "The Americ

2026-11-13

According to Al Jazeera, Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, stated on the 12th that US officials had requested Russian President Vladimir Putin to mediate and facilitate negotiations between the US and Iran. Ghalibaf said, "The Americans spoke with Mr. Putin during their visit to Moscow and requested that he communicate with Iran so that, in any way, Iran would agree to direct dialogue with the US." The White House did not directly respond to US media inquiries regarding whether the US had requested Putin to mediate US-Iran negotiations. US President Trump's senior envoys, Steve Witkov and Jared Kushner, met with Putin in Russia on Thursday to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine. In their subsequent remarks, neither Putin nor Trump's envoys mentioned whether the two sides had discussed the Iranian issue.