OREANDA-NEWS  Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh participated in talks between Ali Larijani, adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Sunday, July 20, Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali said.

The day before, Dmitry Peskov, the Russian leader's press secretary, said that Putin had received Larijani, the senior adviser to the supreme leader of Iran, in the Kremlin, who provided assessments of the escalated situation in the Middle East and around the Iranian nuclear program.

"The Minister of Defense of our country attended the meeting of Advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Larijani with Russian President Vladimir Putin, held in the Kremlin on Sunday," the ambassador told the IRNA news agency, the corresponding message was published on the embassy's Telegram channel.