Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Saturday, March 5, 2022
Lavrov: Moscow needs US guarantees over Russia sanctions before backing Iran nuke deal
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart in Moscow. on March 5, 2022. (Sergei Ilnitesky/Pool/AFP)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow is demanding guarantees from the US before backing the Iran nuclear deal, citing the current wave of Western sanctions against Russia.
“We requested that our US colleagues … give us written guarantees at the minimum level of Secretary of State that the current [sanctions] process launched by the US will not in any way harm our right to free, fully-fledged trade and economic and investment cooperation and military-technical cooperation with Iran,” Lavrov says at a news conference.
