Putin Says He Doesn't Want To Discuss Possible Israeli-U.S. Killing Of Iran's Khamenei

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ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 18 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin connected Thursday refused to talk nan anticipation that Israel and nan United States would termination Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and said nan Iranian group were consolidating astir nan activity successful Tehran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly speculated that Israel’s subject attacks could consequence successful authorities alteration successful Iran while U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Tuesday that nan U.S. knew wherever Khamenei was “hiding” but that Washington was not going to termination him “for now”.

Asked what his guidance would beryllium if Israel did termination Khamenei pinch nan assistance of nan United States, Putin said: “I do not moreover want to talk this possibility. I do not want to.”

When pressed, Putin said he had heard nan remarks astir perchance sidesplitting Khamenei but that he did not want to talk it.

“We spot that coming successful Iran, pinch each nan complexity of nan soul governmental processes taking spot there...that location is simply a consolidation of nine astir nan country’s governmental leadership,” Putin told elder news agency editors successful nan bluish Russian metropolis of St Petersburg.

Putin said each sides should look for ways to extremity hostilities successful a measurement that ensured some Iran’s correct to serene atomic powerfulness and Israel’s correct to nan unconditional information of nan Jewish state.

Putin was speaking arsenic Trump kept nan world guessing whether nan U.S. would subordinate Israel’s bombardment of Iranian atomic and rocket sites and arsenic residents of Iran’s superior streamed retired of nan metropolis connected nan sixth time of nan aerial assault.

Putin said he had been successful touch pinch Trump and pinch Netanyahu, and that he had conveyed Moscow’s ideas connected resolving nan conflict while ensuring Iran’s continued entree to civilian atomic energy.

Iranian Nuclear Facilities

Questioned astir imaginable authorities alteration successful Iran, Putin said that earlier getting into something, 1 should ever look astatine whether aliases not nan main purpose is being achieved earlier starting something.

He said Iran’s underground uranium enrichment accommodation were still intact.

“These underground factories, they exist, thing has happened to them,” Putin said.

“It seems to maine that it would beryllium correct for everyone to look for ways to extremity hostilities and find ways for each parties to this conflict to travel to an statement pinch each other,” Putin said. “In my opinion, successful general, specified a solution tin beryllium found.”

Asked if Russia was fresh to supply Iran pinch modern weapons to take sides itself against Israeli strikes, Putin said a strategical business pact signed pinch Tehran successful January did not envisage subject practice and that Iran had not made immoderate general petition for assistance.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said connected Wednesday that Moscow was telling nan United States not to onslaught Iran because it would radically destabilize nan Middle East.

A spokeswoman for nan Russian Foreign Ministry besides warned that Israeli strikes connected Iranian atomic accommodation risked triggering a atomic catastrophe.

Putin said that Israel had fixed Moscow assurances that Russian specialists helping to build 2 much reactors astatine nan Bushehr atomic powerfulness works successful Iran would not beryllium wounded successful aerial strikes.

Putin said that Moscow had “a very bully narration pinch Iran” and that Russia could guarantee Iran’s interests successful atomic energy.

Russia has offered to return enriched uranium from Iran and to proviso atomic substance to nan country’s civilian power programme.

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“It is imaginable to guarantee Iran’s interests successful nan section of serene atomic energy. And astatine nan aforesaid time, to reside Israel’s concerns astir its security,” Putin said. “We person outlined them (our ideas) to our partners from nan USA, Israel and Iran.”

(Additional reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Gleb Bryanski successful St Petersburg, Russia, Anastasia Lyrchikova and Dmitry Antonov successful Moscow and Darya Korsunskaya successful London; editing by Guy Faulconbridge/Andrew Osborn)