Iran’s President Meets Putin in Turkmenistan

The setting matters more than the agenda: a forum in Turkmenistan keeps the encounter multilateral and technically economic, even as the stated scope runs from energy to transport corridors. For commodity and RWA markets, the signal is a potential deepening of sanctioned-economy trade routes and settlement workarounds rather than any immediate flow. Whether the agreed acceleration translates into bankable projects — and how far the Middle East language extends beyond rhetoric — is the open question.