Having Ebrahim Raisi arrive for talks with Vladimir Putin is not new in itself, as the Iranian and Russian presidents have been traveling between Tehran and. 07.12.2023, Sputnik International
The most urgent issue on the mind of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi ahead of talks with his Russian counterpart is the “ethnic cleansing and massacres” that Israel is conducting in Palestine, Foad Izadi, associate professor at the Department of American Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, told Sputnik.This explains the timing of the trip, said the expert, adding that the issue of genocide should be a concern to all world leaders. “And that’s obviously something that Iran cares about,” the professor pointed out, in reference to the spiraling civilian death toll in Gaza amid Israel’s war on Hamas.After the seven-day Palestine-Israel ceasefire established as part of an agreement to exchange hostages and allow passage for humanitarian aid came to a close on December 1, officials on the ground have been warning of the increasingly dire situation in the enclave.
