Putin and Trump’s 50-Minute Call Amid Israel-Iran Escalation

In a phone call lasting 50 minutes, President Vladimir Putin and former US President Donald Trump discussed the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. The call took place on June 14th, following Israel’s Operation Rising Lion – a large-scale aerial campaign targeting Iranian military sites. According to Yury Ushakov, Putin’s top aide on foreign policy, Russia had priorly proposed concrete steps towards a settlement in the ongoing negotiations between US and Iran regarding the latter’s nuclear program.