Khamenei sends Iranian top diplomat to Moscow to seek help from Putin

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatolah Ali Khamenei, has sent his foreign minister to Moscow on Monday to seek the president, Vladimir Putin, more help from Russia after the US's greatest military action against the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution over the weekend.

US President Donald Trump, and Israel have publicly speculated about the assassination of the Supreme Leader, Khamene, and about the regime's change, a step that Russia fears could lead the Middle East into the abyss, Reuters reports, Follow Time.net, broadcasts Periscope.

Although Putin has condemned Israeli attacks, he has not yet commented on US attacks on Iranian nuclear countries, though last week he has called for calm and offered Moscow services as a mediator on the nuclear programme.

A top source has told Reuters that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aracchi would hand over a letter from Khamenei Putin, seeking his support.

Iran has not been impressed by Russia's support so far, Iranian sources have said to Reuters, and the country wants Putin to do more to support it against Israel and the United States. Sources have not provided details of what help Tehran wanted.

The Kremlin has said Putin would receive Aracchi, but has not let it know what would be discussed.

Aracchi was quoted by state news agency T The ASS has said Iran and Russia are coordinating their positions on current escalation in the Middle East.

Russia, an old Tehran ally, plays a role in Iran's nuclear negotiations with the West as a veto member of the UN Security Council and a signatory of an earlier nuclear agreement Trump has abandoned during his first term in 2018.

But Putin, whose army is fighting a major war in Ukraine in the fourth year, has so far shown interest in diving into a confrontation with the United States over Iran, while Trump seeks to regulate ties with Moscow.