Live Updates: Putin relays Iran’s position on peace deal to President Trump

Updated on: October 10, 2026 / 7:56 AM EDT / CBS News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Donald Trump about Iran's position on a possible Mideast peace deal, the Kremlin said Saturday.

The Kremlin said Tehran's stance was relayed in a phone call held between the two leaders on Friday. It did not say how Trump responded, nor elaborate on Iran's position.

Diplomatic efforts to end the Iran conflict, which began with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, have been at an impasse since the summer.

Putin met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of a summit in Turkmenistan earlier this week, where the Russian leader expressed an interest in helping broker peace.

"In coordination with the Iranian president, Putin conveyed the Iranian side's views on a possible resolution to the conflict to Trump," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday, according to Russia's state RIA news agency.

During a rally in upstate New York, President Trump said, "Iran will be very quick, one way or the other. Either they give us everything, or they don't exist any longer. They know that"

The president made the comments while criticizing the Nobel Peace Prize committee for not awarding him the…

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