Al-Arabi al-Jadid's claim: Putin asked Tehran to start direct negotiations between Iran and the Americans. Al-Arabi al-Jadid claimed in the report: According to informed sources, the latest contacts between Russia and the Iranian side were created based on the US request from Moscow to act as a mediator between Washington and Tehran and to convince the Iranian side to sit at the table of direct negotiations with the American side. The Persian Gulf parties also asked Moscow to intervene to convince Iran to be flexible. These sources, who asked not to be identified, added that Russia's actions in this context included untimely trips to Iran as well as public trips, including the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Tehran last month. In addition, the telephone conversation of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, with Mohsen Razai, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, was held in the same framework and finally led to Razai's visit to Moscow last Thursday and his meeting with the Russian President. These sources claimed that during this meeting, Putin asked Iran to directly enter into negotiations with the Americans and explained the "advantages" of doing so. However, according to the aforementioned sources, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council explained in detail the reasons for his country's opposition to negotiations with the US government in the current situation and referred to the negotiations in Islamabad and what happened after the US abandoned its commitments.