Russian President Vladimir Putin condemns Ayatollah Khamenei’s ‘cynical murder’: Why is Iran important to Moscow?

In his first official comment on the US-Israeli coordinated strikes in Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the targeted killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a “cynical murder,” Russian state media agency TASS reported. Putin said Khamenei’s killing violated “all norms of human […]