no civilian targets and moderate response –

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to respond moderately to Israel’s killing of the Hamas leader, advising against attacking Israeli civilians, two senior Iranian sources said. The message was delivered Monday by Sergei Shoigu during meetings with senior Iranian officials, the sources said, as the Islamic Republic weighs its response to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh.

Meanwhile, this morning it became known that Russia has begun delivering advanced air defense equipment and radar to Iran, which had requested them. During Shoigu’s visit to Tehran yesterday, Iranian media reported statements by President Masoud Pezashkian to his guest, expressing his country’s desire to expand relations with “strategic partner Russia.” “Russia is among the countries that have stood by the Iranian nation in difficult times,” the president said in a speech to the secretary of the Russian Security Council.