Putin Left Awkwardly Waiting Alone At The International Summit
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Mr. Putin, nationalist autocrats, were in Tehran for a tripartite summit with their Iranian hosts to discuss Syria and other security and economic issues, including Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine. The summit, officially part of a series of talks on the future of Syria, was unofficially a diplomatic counterpoint to recent visits by United States President Joseph Biden to Israel and Saudi Arabia. In many joint statements and press appearances, there was little evidence of any breakthroughs on regional issues, including a proposal to allow Eastern European food out of the Black Sea conflict zone and into world markets....