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Russia's Putin tells UAE leader he wants to discuss Iran tensions with him

AL-Monitor
Jan 29, 2026
FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flower-laying ceremony by the Motherland monument at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery to mark the anniversary of Soviet forces breaking the Nazi siege of Leningrad in 1944 during World War Two, in Saint Petersburg, January 27, 2026. Sputnik/Alexei Danichev/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flower-laying ceremony by the Motherland monument at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery to mark the anniversary of Soviet forces breaking the Nazi siege of Leningrad in 1944 during World War Two, in Saint Petersburg, January 27, 2026. Sputnik/Alexei Danichev/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo — Alexei Danichev

MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday told his UAE counterpart Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan that Russia was closely monitoring the situation in Iran and wanted to discuss it with him in Kremlin talks.

Putin made the comment at the start of talks with the UAE president whose country has recently hosted peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

Earlier on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the potential for talks between the U.S. and Iran had not yet been exhausted, and that any use of force against Tehran could create "chaos" in the region and lead to dangerous consequences.

Peskov was commenting a day after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Iran to come to the table and make a deal on nuclear weapons or face a possible U.S. attack.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Dmitry AntonovEditing by Andrew Osborn)