By Simon Robinson
St. Petersburg, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Iranian society consolidated the leadership of the Islamic Republic when he was asked by Reuters if he agreed with Israeli explanations about possible regime change in Tehran.
Putin spoke while Trump held the world whether the US would join the bombing of Israel of Iranian nuclear and raket sites and while residents of the capital of Iran flocked out of the city on the sixth day of the air raid.
Putin said that all parties must look for ways to put an end to the hostilities in a way that caused the right of Iran to peaceful nuclear energy and Israel's right to the unconditional safety of the Jewish state.
Asked about the comments of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the change of the regime in Iran could be the result of the military attacks of Israel and the requirement of US President Donald Trump to Iran's unconditional dedication, Putin said that the head goal was to be started.
“We see that today in Iran, with all the complexity of the internal political processes that take place there … that there is a consolidation of society around the political leadership of the country,” Putin told the editors of the Senior Press Office in the Northern Russian city of St. Petersburg.
Putin said he had had personal contact with Trump and Netanyahu, and that he had transferred Moscow's ideas about solving the conflict.
He said that Iran's underground uranium enrichment facilities were still intact.
“These underground factories, they exist, nothing happened to them,” said Putin, adding that all parties should look for a resolution that took care of the interests of both Iran and Israel.
“It seems to me that it would be good for everyone to look for ways to put an end to the hostilities and to find ways for all parties in this conflict to reach an agreement with each other,” Putin said. “In my opinion, such a solution can be found in general.”
The Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday that Moscow told the United States not to hit Iran because it would radically destabilize the middle -east.
A spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also warned that Israeli strikes on Iranian core facilities caused a nuclear catastrophe.
(Additional reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Gleb Bryanski in St. Petersburg, Russia, Anastasia Lyrchikova and Dmitry Antonov in Moscow and Darya Korsunskaya in London; edit by Guy Faulconbridge/Andrew Osborn)
