Milan, 5 April (LaPresse) – ‘The Russian side has expressed the hope that the efforts undertaken by various countries to ease tensions surrounding Iran will be successful, in the interests of a long-term and sustainable normalisation of the situation in the Middle East, which would be facilitated by the United States abandoning the language of ultimatums and the situation returning to a path of negotiation’. This was stated by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi. The Tass news agency reports.