Iran’s president to meet Putin in Moscow next week

The signal here is the absence of an agenda, which leaves markets to read the meeting through the lens of geopolitical risk rather than any concrete deliverable. Iran and Russia sit at the center of the supply and sanctions questions that have kept energy and risk assets jumpy, so a high-level sit-down between them matters more for tone than for any announced outcome. Whether the encounter produces anything beyond symbolism is the open question, and the lack of a stated date or agenda means positioning around it will likely stay reactive rather than directional.