Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is preparing to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he expected their conversation to “be in the interests of both countries”. Araghchi said late on Sunday night that he would have “serious and important discussions” with Putin in Moscow.

Iran's military launched dozens of missiles into Israel on Saturday night after President Donald Trump ordered U.S. airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. Trump and other world leaders have called on Iran to come to the negotiating table.

Israel has struck a series of nuclear facilities across Iran, including its largest enrichment site, Natanz, key buildings at its Esfahan complex, factories that make centrifuges to enrich uranium, and its still-under-construction heavy-water reactor at Khondab.