🇷🇺 Russia reaffirms diplomatic path as situation around Iran deteriorates – Kremlin

Russia continues to maintain contact with the leadership of countries affected by the Iran conflict, including the Gulf states, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Other statements:

🔶Russia continues communication with countries affected by the Iran conflict, including Gulf states

🔶Kremlin expressed disappointment that, despite reports of progress in US–Iran talks, the situation deteriorated into direct aggression

🔶President Vladimir Putin will hold an international phone call on Monday related to the developments around Iran

🔶Russia maintains its commitment to a political and diplomatic settlement even after the US strike on Iran

🔶There are currently no contacts with BRICS countries regarding Iran; BRICS membership does not entail mutual defense obligations in the event of aggression

🔶Following the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Moscow is analyzing the situation and drawing conclusions regarding the negotiation process, while continuing work in Russia’s national interest

On Ukraine:

🔶Security guarantees are on the agenda of Ukraine negotiations, alongside the central territorial issue

🔶Kremlin will not publicly discuss the content of the Ukraine settlement talks

🔶Russia remains open to pursuing its interests through peaceful means

🔶Moscow values US mediation efforts in the Ukraine negotiations and remains open to dialogue with Washington

🔶Russia has its own national interests that it intends to secure

🔶Moscow relies primarily on itself, defending its own interests and will continue to be guided by that principle

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❗️❗️❗️Inside Gandhi hospital in Tehran after US-Israeli bombing

🟠 Exclusive Sputnik video from Gandhi Hospital in Tehran reveals the aftermath of last night's US-Israeli attack.

🟠 World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus voice deep concern over damage to the medical facility, saying the WHO is verifying the incident.

💬 "Health facilities must never become part of active conflicts," Tedros stressed.

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🚢 Strait of Hormuz: Mapping global energy artery

📍 After US–Israel strikes on Iran, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz—the Gulf’s main oil artery—has sharply slowed

Check out Sputnik’s infographic to see which Persian Gulf countries’ oil and gas flow to global markets through Hormuz 👆

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🗣 Strait of Hormuz closure could trigger global economic disaster – expert

🔊 Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to US–Israeli strikes could lead to “an unprecedented global economic catastrophe,” Egyptian expert Mohamed Mehran tells Sputnik.

🔶 The closure may add to halting “the flow of millions of barrels of oil per day” through the strait, which could result in a "mad increase in crude prices to $300 per barrel,” according to Mehra.

🔶 He warns of “catastrophic economic consequences for Europe, Japan, China, South Korea, and India, which rely heavily” on State of Hormuz oil supplies.

🔶 Even a short-term halt in such deliveries could cause “global recession, hyperinflation, and a severe energy crisis, which would hit developing countries the hardest,” Mehran cautions.

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🇮🇷 Current situation in Tehran: Streets remain calm, some shops are closed, and moderate queues are forming at petrol stations, Sputnik correspondent reports

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🇮🇱 IDF says Israeli Air Force, guided by military intelligence, has launched an additional broad wave of strikes on Tehran

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📹 Israeli MFA spokesperson dodges question on 150+ girls killed in Iran's Minab school strike

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🚨 Mosaic defense: Iran’s strategic insurance against enemy decapitation attacks

Mosaic Defense “is a system of decentralized command and control of the armed forces, and the launching of strikes against predetermined targets according to predetermined plans,” prolific Russian military observer Igor Korotchenko told Sputnik.

“It’s clear that Iran’s military and political leadership assumed that some of them would be killed in a first strike. Therefore, plans were developed in advance, and necessary resources allocated, to ensure that waves of missile attacks by the IRGC and the Iranian Army would be as effective as possible,” Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of Russia's National Defense magazine, and director of the Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade, explained.

Mosaic Defense was the “only way” Iran could conceive of waging a sustained conflict against a conventionally superior adversary, Korotchenko stressed.

Its main advantage – which proved its worth after Saturday’s surprise US-Israeli aggression, was “the ability to continue armed resistance even after Iran’s top leaders were killed and air defenses weakened by US and Israeli strikes.”

If the current intensity of Iranian strikes continues, “the situation for its adversaries will become, to put it mildly, uncomfortable, and in some cases, perhaps even critical,” the analyst stressed.

💬 “Iran has clearly abandoned any red lines for those countries with US facilities or joint economic projects on their territory,” Korotchenko noted. Having targeted military facilities, it will now “methodically strike Gulf countries’ infrastructure to pressure them to use diplomacy to deter the US from further escalation.”

“The main question now is the resilience of Iran’s air defenses,” and its ability to withstand US and Israeli air attacks.

💬 “We’re currently in a critical phase of events. We’ll see what the next 5-7 days hold in store; they’ll reveal possible future directions. For now, Iran’s domestic political situation remains stable, and most importantly, this decentralized control model is showing its advantages, something neither Trump nor Netanyahu likely expected,” Korotchenko summed up.

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