Russian President Vladimir Putin will host Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for talks in Moscow next week as Russia tries to help salvage a nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran, state television channel Rossiya-1 reported on Sunday.
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Rossiya-1 did not disclose when precisely the meeting between the two leaders would take place, nor the issues they would discuss.
Russia is taking part in talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which lifted some sanctions against Tehran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.
Former US President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the deal in 2018. Iran later breached many of the deal's nuclear restrictions and kept pushing beyond them.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that progress had been made in the talks to revive the deal.
The report came after loud blasts were heard in several cities in western Iran early on Sunday, according to local news agencies and postings on social media, but the nature of the blasts was not immediately known.
After several similar incidents in recent months, authorities said that the Iranian military was holding unannounced air defense drills amid rising tensions with Israel and the United States.
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