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Mohsen Rezaei, SNSC secretary, delivered Supreme Leader's message to Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Putin received the Leader's message after Rezaei's Kremlin visit following a call on regional issues.
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Rezaei in Moscow
Major General Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin and personally delivered a message from Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei, according to the SNSC secretariat and Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. Rezaei traveled to Moscow for the meeting and personally presented the message to Vladimir Putin, after Rezaei had emphasized the importance of continued strategic cooperation between Iran and Russia in a telephone conversation with Putin on Monday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Putin and Rezaei held talks at the Kremlin but did not provide details, and the message’s contents were not disclosed. Moscow and Tehran continued diplomatic coordination amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, and it added that Reuters reported Rezaei delivered a message from Mojtaba Khamenei to Putin without stating what it contained.
What was said
Putin received محسن رضائي at the Kremlin during a visit to Moscow, and it described a Monday telephone call in which the Iranian official expressed appreciation for Putin’s positions in support of Tehran. The two sides affirmed their determination to continue strategic cooperation between Russia and Iran, in accordance with the roadmap set by the leaderships of the two countries.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that Putin met Rezaei at the Kremlin and discussed bilateral issues and regional developments, and it added that Iran’s broadcasting authority said Rezaei handed a letter from the Leader of the Revolution to Putin. Moscow urged Russians to avoid travel to Iran and warned that fighting in the region could resume, citing a statement from Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
Diplomatic stakes
The meeting came as part of ongoing high-level consultations between Tehran and Moscow, and it said Iran and Russia began implementing a 20-year Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty in October 2025. The 20-year comprehensive strategic partnership treaty was aimed at expanding cooperation between the two countries in political, economic, security, and defense fields, and it tied the Kremlin meeting to continued strategic cooperation.
Russia rejected reports of tanker diversions and quoted Kirill Dmitriev dismissing media reports as "fake news" while insisting that vessels were continuing along their planned routes. The Moscow visit was framed as part of Rezaei’s delivery of the leader’s message to Putin, while the Anadolu Ajansı account emphasized that the message’s contents were not disclosed and that Peskov did not provide details of the talks.