Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to use Moscow’s close ties with Iran to restore calm in the Middle East after the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, which he condemned as “ unprovoked aggression. ” Now, Putin is pretending to a new role for himself: the world’s peacemaker. Putin’s strategy is working. President Trump held a call with Putin on Monday, the first such call since the beginning of the war with Iran. According to Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov, the Russian