{"id":20230,"date":"2026-08-24T07:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/24\/russia-ready-to-support-mediation-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T07:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:59:14","slug":"russia-ready-to-support-mediation-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/24\/russia-ready-to-support-mediation-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says It Is Ready to Back Mediation on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Alimov, Russia&#8217;s deputy foreign minister, said Moscow is ready, if asked, to support mediation efforts aimed at ending the war in Iran and maintaining stability in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>He added that this readiness is not limited to the Iran issue and could also be raised within the broader framework of protecting regional stability, including in connection with a security doctrine in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alimov, developments in Lebanon have made efforts to revive talks between the United States and Iran more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Russia had previously proposed mediating between Iran and Arab Gulf states. The Persian Gulf is considered one of the region&#8217;s most important strategic energy routes, and any tension there affects regional stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says it is ready to support mediation efforts on Iran and regional stability in the Middle East, according to a deputy foreign minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}