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French President Emmanuel Macron's idea of Iran's participation as a mediator in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia is a failure. Tehran is participating in the war by providing military drones to Moscow.
Only a subject stronger than Russia can become a mediator in relations, who can force her to do something. Channel 24 was told about this by Russian human rights activist Mark Feygin.
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The expert notes that in view of Iran's supply of its drones to Russia, this does not allow Tehran to be an intermediary in negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.
war. Iran is part of this conflict because it supplies weapons to one of the parties. If you want, there is the Pope, who, obviously, does not supply weapons. Therefore, it would be more logical to turn to him, – Feygin believes.
According to him, Iran is a pariah country – with a status that Russia itself can fall under if it is recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism.
“Iran has limited opportunities for diplomatic contacts. And why would Iran support Kyiv? What is the motivation there? Some kind of nuclear agreement that actually opens the way for getting military nuclear technology with impunity? It's somehow doubtful. I don't think that Iran has the capacity for a mediation mission,” the Russian human rights activist said.
He added that the fact that there is mutual distrust between Moscow and Tehran is not conducive to Iran's mediating functions. Feigin.
Putin's whims and who can mediate
The oppositionist said that any country that wants to become a mediator in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine , will not be able to do what Putin wants.
Putin wants Kyiv to capitulate. None of the intermediaries can give this. Therefore, it is unacceptable for him to negotiate compromises. A compromise could be the withdrawal of troops to the positions on February 24th. Therefore, this is, in principle, a dead end for the time being,” the human rights activist pointed out.
In his opinion, a player may be stronger than Moscow in the military sense as an intermediary.
“This is the phenomenon of the situation. Of such countries, it can only be the United States, no one else. The rest is some kind of symbolic role of an intermediary. The same Guterres: who is he and how many tanks does he have, how many bayonets does he have? No at all? that he is nobody. To be honest, I doubt that something will work out, because so far not a single mission has been successful,” Feigin summed up.
Macron turned to Iran about the war: what is known
- The head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that French President Emmanuel Macron asked Iran to mediate in the war that Russia launched against Ukraine. The Iranian side, they say, agreed at the request and will send its initiative to the Kremlin.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian said that he was going to Russia. He allegedly wants to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. However, he did not explain how.
- August 30, sources in the Joe Biden administration said that Russia had officially purchased the Mohajer-6, Shahed-129 and Shahed-191 series of UAVs from Iran. Probably, the aggressor country acquired them to use in the war against Ukraine.
