President Vladimir Putin of Russia has offered his condolences to ⁠the family of Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in the U.S., Israel joint bombardment of Iran.

Putin transmitted his condolences in a note to President Masoud Pezeshkian at the weekend.

Meanwhile, Russia is yet to make further contact with senior Iranian leadership since the strikes began on Saturday.

President Putin is yet to speak with the U.S. ⁠President Donald Trump.

Paradoxically, Putin may have been watching the conflict in the Middle East.

Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Tuesday, that there were no plans for such a conversation at this time.

Dmitry Peskov stated that "Putin will certainly make every effort to contribute to at least a slight easing of tensions" in the Gulf region after Iran attacked countries in the Middle East.

According to Dmitry Peskov, "Yesterday's discussions with virtually all of his interlocutors focused on Putin conveying his deep concern about the strikes on their infrastructure to our colleagues in Iran, taking advantage of the dialogue we maintain with the Iranian ‌leadership."

It was disclosed that President Putin held a flurry of phone calls on Monday with four Arab Gulf state leaders, offering to use Moscow's ties to Tehran - with which it has a strategic partnership - to try ⁠and defuse tensions in the region.

Iran had embarked on retaliatory warfare after U.S. and Israeli attacks with strikes against energy infrastructure in Gulf countries and against tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.