The ISNA news agency reported on Thursday, November 5, that Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, gave a message from Mujtaba Khamenei, the third leader of the Islamic Republic, during his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Rezai's trip to Moscow was unannounced, and the first news about it was given to the media by Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, after the meeting with Putin. Before that, Razai and Putin discussed the latest developments in a phone call.