Russia offers to stop supporting Iran if US stops sharing intelligence with Ukraine - Politico

The aggressor country russia has offered the US a deal under which moscow would stop providing Iran with information about the US military in the Middle East, and Washington would stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine. The US rejected russia's proposal.

Politico reported this on Friday, March 20, citing its own sources.

Two unnamed interlocutors of the publication, who are familiar with the course of negotiations between the US and russia on Ukraine, said that russian representative Kirill Dmitriev made such a proposal to representatives of the US Presidential Administration Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during their meeting in Miami last week.

Another source said that russia has put forward various proposals to the United States on Iran, but Washington has rejected them all.

Politico writes that the very existence of such a proposal has caused concern in European countries, which fear that moscow could drive a wedge between the Americans and Europeans at a critical time for transatlantic relations.

Reported discussions of such a deal are likely to only heighten European suspicions that meetings between Dmitriev and Witkoff are not bringing concrete progress toward ending the war in Ukraine, but are instead seen by russia as a chance to draw the United States into a deal that leaves Europe on the sidelines.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on March 6, The Washington Post wrote that russia provides Iran with information about the location of US army infrastructure in the Middle East.

On March 15, the Iranian leadership confirmed media reports that Iran receives military and economic assistance from russia and China.

Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources, that russia is expanding its support for Iran in order to prolong the conflict in the Middle East, from which moscow benefits economically.