New Delhi, July 3 -- Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's Deputy Security Council Chairman, confirmed on Friday that he held a meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, where he had arrived to attend the farewell ceremony for former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

between Putin's chosen envoy and the Iranian head of state at a moment of acute political uncertainty in Tehran - carried a signal of its own. Russia did not send a ceremonial figure. It sent one of its most senior security officials.

Medvedev traveled to Iran as a special emissary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the description used by Russian state television. He was among the highest-ranking officials to attend a ceremony that drew delegations from more than 100...