The EU’s foreign policy chief said that in a phone call with the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, he asked the government to end its military support for Russia.

On Tuesday, Kaya Kallas wrote on X that he spoke with Abbas Araqchi about the situation in the Persian Gulf as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine.

He wrote that Moscow has intensified this war in recent days. Kallas added that in the Persian Gulf, a pause in the fighting could give mediators an opportunity to find a way back to diplomacy and prevent a return to full-scale war.