Kremlin condemned today the assassination of the leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement "Hezbollah" Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last week, and said he assessed the risk of a major war in the Middle East as "extremely high," Reuters reported.
"The Russian side condemns such actions, we believe that they led to a significant destabilization of the situation in the region," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.
"The bottom line is that such indiscriminate bombing of residential areas in Lebanon results in a huge number of human casualties, which will inevitably lead to a humanitarian catastrophe like the one we are witnessing in Gaza," he added, expressing the "deepest concern." ; on the part of Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described Nasrallah's killing over the weekend as politically motivated, and the Russian Foreign Ministry called on Israel to immediately end hostilities in Lebanon.
Peskov responded to a query about information from Reuters that members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps mostly use either Russian or Chinese-made communication devices, saying that Moscow's trade ties with Tehran are developing.
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Earlier Reuters reported that Iran was concerned about Israeli agents infiltrating the country after the deadly explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members, citing an official Iranian security official. . According to him, a large-scale operation is currently underway to check all communication devices used by the Guards Corps.
"I don't know how reliable these sources are," said Peskov. "The only thing I can say is that our trade and economic relations with Iran are developing. They are developing in all areas, as well as in trade," he added.
According to the Russian government, later today Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will arrive in Tehran for talks with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian and First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref, Reuters notes.