Overview

• Sergei Lavrov met Iran’s Abbas Araqchi in Rio de Janeiro to restate Moscow’s offer to broker a diplomatic solution to the nuclear dispute
• BRICS leaders issued a joint declaration denouncing last month’s U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s civilian and nuclear infrastructure as violations of international law
• Moscow reaffirmed Tehran’s right to pursue a peaceful nuclear energy program and proposed storing Iranian uranium
• The bloc called for strengthened multilateral diplomacy to address regional crises from Gaza to Jammu and Kashmir
• BRICS solidarity delivered Iran a major diplomatic boost and highlighted the grouping’s expanding role in global security diplomacy