Russia urges Iran, 'all parties' in Middle East to show restraint amid US military buildup

Russia warned Iran and "all parties successful the portion to workout restraint and caution" Thursday amid a U.S. subject buildup successful the Middle East. 

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the remark arsenic the world’s largest craft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and its onslaught radical are moving from the Caribbean toward the Middle East. 

"Russia continues to make relations with Iran, and successful doing so, we telephone connected our Iranian friends and each parties successful the portion to workout restraint and caution, and we impulse them to prioritize governmental and diplomatic means successful resolving immoderate problems," Peskov said Thursday, according to Reuters. 

"Right now, we are so seeing an unprecedented escalation of tensions successful the region. But we inactive expect that governmental and diplomatic means and negotiations volition proceed to prevail successful the hunt for a settlement," helium added.

WORLD'S LARGEST AIRCRAFT CARRIER HEADS TO MIDDLE EAST AS IRAN NUCLEAR TENSIONS SPIKE DRAMATICALLY

A F-18E combatant pitchy takes disconnected from craft bearer USS Gerald R. Ford arsenic it sails during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 workout connected Sept. 24, 2025, successful the North Sea. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)

The determination of the USS Gerald R. Ford would spot 2 craft carriers and their accompanying warships successful the region. The USS Abraham Lincoln and 3 guided-missile destroyers arrived successful the Middle East much than 2 weeks ago. 

Negotiations betwixt the United States and Iran implicit the latter’s atomic programme precocious Tuesday toward what Tehran described arsenic the opening of a imaginable framework, but crisp nationalist divisions betwixt the 2 sides underscored however acold isolated they remain. 

IRAN FIRES LIVE MISSILES INTO STRAIT OF HORMUZ AS TRUMP ENVOYS ARRIVE FOR NUCLEAR TALKS

The USS Gerald R. Ford is heading toward the Middle East arsenic tensions with Iran escalate and President Donald Trump demands afloat atomic dismantlement.  (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian overseas curate Abbas Araghchi said the 2 sides reached a "general statement connected a fig of guiding principles" and agreed to statesman drafting substance for a imaginable agreement, with plans to speech drafts and docket a 3rd circular of talks.  

Yet Washington has publically insisted that immoderate statement indispensable effect successful the dismantling of Iran’s atomic programme — including its enrichment capableness — on with limits connected Tehran’s ballistic rocket programme and an extremity to its enactment for allied militant groups specified arsenic Hamas and Hezbollah.

The world's largest craft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, is seen successful the North Sea during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 workout successful September 2025. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)

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Those demands spell good beyond impermanent enrichment pauses oregon method adjustments. 

Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.