MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, have agreed in a telephone conversation to continue active contacts, the Kremlin’s press service reported.
"The leaders agreed to remain in close contact," the report said.
Escalation in the Middle East was the main topic of the conversation.
The United States and Israel launched a large-scale military operation against Iran on February 28. Major Iranian cities, including Tehran, were struck. The White House justified the attack by citing alleged missile and nuclear threats from Iran. At the same time, US leadership openly called on the Iranian population to rise up against their government and seize power. As a result of the strikes, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several other senior figures in the leadership of the Islamic Republic were killed. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced a retaliatory operation, targeting sites in Israel. US military bases in Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia were also hit.