Russian envoy urges Washington to drop ‘blackmail’ tactics

Russian envoy urges Washington to drop ‘blackmail’ tactics Russia’s envoy to international organisations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said the United States should abandon what he described as “ultimatums” and “blackmail” in negotiations with Iran if progress is to be made. “The US is accustomed to conduct negotiations from the position of strength, threatening to use military force or tighten sanctions. It is obvious that this scheme doesn’t work with Iran,” he wrote on X.