Trump brings Putin in to Iran nuclear deal talks to bring about 'rapid conclusion'
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that he believed that Putin agreed that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon.
US President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in nuclear talks with Iran, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The two leaders spoke on the phone on Wednesday and discussed US-brokered nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that he wanted a decision from Iran in a short time period, and that Putin could help expedite this.
"I stated to President Putin that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and, on this, I believe that we were in agreement," he wrote in the post.
Trump brings Putin in for Iran nuclear talks
Trump added that Putin suggested that he should participate in the discussions because "he could, perhaps, be helpful in getting this brought to a rapid conclusion."Trump added that he believed that Iran was "slowwalking their decision on this very important matter," and that he needed a quick answer.
This comes after the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a Wednesday statement that Moscow is concerned about rising tensions around Iran and the risk of the situation slipping into a full-scale confrontation
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that Trump stressed that Russia's cooperation on the issue was essential.
Putin, Trump discuss Ukraine-Russia War
During the conversation, which lasted a little over an hour, Trump and Putin also discussed the war in Ukraine.The US president said that their conversation was "a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace."
In the post, Trump said that the Russian president informed him that the Kremlin would be responding to Ukrainian attacks.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up a bridge connecting Russia to Crimea.
Also last week, Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack on four of Russia's airbases in an operation dubbed "Spiderweb."
US Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg said that he believed that the level of risk in the conflict had significantly increased.
"I'm telling you, the risk levels are going way up - I mean, what happened this weekend," Kellogg told Fox News.
"People have to understand in the national security space: when you attack an opponent's part of their national survival system, which is their triad, the nuclear triad, that means your risk level goes up because you don't know what the other side is going to do. You're not sure."
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that Trump had not been informed in advance of Ukraine's drone attacks on Russia's bombers. Trump reportedly reaffirmed this to Putin during the call, Russian media outlet TASS reported.
