New Delhi, April 12 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call on Sunday with Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian following the collapse of US-Iran negotiations, ABC News cited Kremlin as saying. The US-Iran talks, which lasted nearly 20 hours in Pakistan, failed to produce an agreement to end the ongoing conflict.

The Kremlin said Putin expressed willingness to play a mediating role in resolving the crisis.

As reported by ABC News: "Vladimir Putin emphasized his readiness to continue to facilitate the search for a political and diplomatic settlement to the conflict and to mediate efforts to establish a just and lasting peace in the Middle East," the Kremlin said in its readout.

According to Iran's semi-official Tasnim news age...