Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Tehran to meet his Turkish and Iranian counterparts as part of the so-called Astana format of talks related to Syria, the Kremlin has said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on July 12 that Putin will hold talks on July 19 with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran's Ebrahim Raisi in only the Russian leader's second foreign trip since the start of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Russia, Iran, and Turkey have held multiple rounds of talks, initially in the Kazakh capital of Astana, on efforts to end the civil war in Syria and to stabilize the government of the Middle East country.
Iran and Russia have been staunch supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey has called for his ouster and backed opposition fighters.
