Russia's Ambassador to Tehran, Levan Jagaryan, commented in an interview with Iran's Tasnim news agency, on the recent remarks made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The Russian FM said that Moscow wanted written guarantees from Washington that Russia's trade, investment and military-technical cooperation with Iran would not be hindered by sanctions imposed on it over its special military operation in Ukraine.

Jagaryan clarified that a "misunderstanding" took place with regards to Lavrov's comments, and called on the Iranian people to ignore stories from US-funded media, such as "Radio Yesterday", by which he was referring to Radio Farda (tomorrow), a Persian-speaking outlet that is a branch of the US government-funded Radio Free Europe external broadcast service.

The ambassador said Russia will discuss the issue with Iran by way of diplomatic channels, and officially explain the issue. Saeed Khatibzadeh, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson, had said that Iran is waiting to hear what Lavrov said through diplomatic channels.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had said that his country needs written assurances from the US that its cooperation with Iran would not be impacted by sanctions resulting from the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed Russia's demands, saying that the sanctions on Russia have nothing to do with the Iran nuclear deal, adding that “they just are not in any way linked together, so I think that's irrelevant."