During their visit to Moscow, the U.S. representatives asked Vladimir Putin to help arrange direct talks between the U.S. and Iran, said Mohammad Bajar Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's unicameral parliament, the Majlis.
"The Americans visited Moscow and asked Putin to talk to Iran in order to arrange direct talks between us," Ghalibaf said in an interview with the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera.