Russia’s Lavrov Says EU, US Destabilizing Global Energy Markets

Lavrov's framing in Tehran, alongside his Iranian counterpart, is less about the substance of energy markets than about coalition signaling: Moscow and Tehran presenting a shared narrative that Western policy, not Russian or Iranian action, is the source of instability. That matters for the two countries most exposed to sanctions and export constraints, and for the buyers who price around them. The open question is whether this remains rhetorical alignment or translates into coordinated positions on production and export routes — the meeting's readout offers no detail beyond the talks themselves.