Putin Will Meet Iranian President This Friday, Discuss Middle East

JAKARTA - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday (11/10). The meeting will discuss the situation in the Middle East.

Putin and Pezeshkian will meet in Turkmenistan, TASS reported on Monday, October 7. The meeting of the two country leaders was delivered in a briefing by Putin's aide, Yuri Ushakov.

"This meeting is very important, both to discuss bilateral issues and, of course, to discuss the worsening situation in the Middle East," Ushakov said, according to TASS.