TehranLavrov offered mediation while Brent sits above $109.
Reuters calculations show Russia’s biggest oil tax revenue doubled to about $9bn by April.
Iran closed Hormuz, which carries a fifth of oil and gas, and buyers shut out of the Gulf switched to Russian barrels.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman says Pakistan and Qatar, not Russia, remain the actual mediators.
Polymarket traders give an Iran-Oman Hormuz deal by 31 October 11%, down 3 points in a week.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 300+ reports worldwide
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- maps Russia's windfall from high oil prices and eased US sanctions on Russian energy, and asks whether Moscow actually wants the US-Iran crisis to end
- TRT World leans critical
- gives Araghchi's blame of the US-Israeli war and economic blockade for Hormuz insecurity, and Lavrov's stated aim of preventing a large-scale war
- The New Arab
- adds that Qatar and Pakistan are narrowing US-Iran differences, and that Lavrov announced Russian personnel will gradually return to Bushehr
Sources: Al Jazeera Online, TRT World, The New Arab