Putin condemned Israel's wave of strikes on Iran, the Kremlin said Friday, following separate phone calls with Israel's Netanyahu and Iran's Pezeshkian.

By Andrew Osborn and Alexander Marrow (Reuters) -Russian leader Vladimir Putin told Iran's president over the phone on Friday that Moscow condemned Israeli actions against Tehran, and in a separate telephone conversation told Israel's prime minister that only diplomacy could resolve issues around Iran's nuclear programme.

President holds separate phone calls with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu