Moscow proposed a quid pro quo to Washington: Russia would stop sharing intelligence with Iran if the US stopped supplying Ukraine with intelligence on Russia, according to Politico.
Citing two people familiar with the negotiations, Politico reported that Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev made the proposal to Trump administration envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during a meeting in Miami last week. The US rejected the proposal, the report said.
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According to Politico, the Russian offer included halting intelligence sharing with Iran on sensitive matters such as the precise coordinates of US military assets in the Middle East in exchange for Washington cutting off intelligence support to Kyiv.
Dmitriev later denied the report, calling it “fake” in a post on X.
The Kremlin also dismissed the Politico story, casting it as “Western disinformation” aimed at driving a wedge between Moscow and its Middle Eastern allies.
Ratcliffe publicly rejects Putin’s word
During the Senate Intelligence Committee’s annual Worldwide Threats hearing on Wednesday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe was asked whether he accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assurance that Russia was not supplying intelligence to Iran. “No, I don’t take Vladimir Putin at his word,” Ratcliffe replied.
Ratcliffe added that Iran was seeking intelligence assistance from Russia, China and other US adversaries, but said any discussion of what support was actually being provided belonged in a classified session.
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