TEHRAN – The Russian deputy foreign minister for African and Arab affairs on Wednesday said his country informed Iran of the U.S. suggestions on Syria when he recently visited Iran, Tasnim reported.

Mikhail Bogdanov on Tuesday met with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Jaberi Ansari in Tehran.

Over the past week Russian President Vladimir Putin sent two envoys to Iran over Syria. One was Bogdanov and the other was Alexander Lavrentiev, the Russian president’s special envoy for the Middle East.

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