 Iran's foreign minister has met his visiting counterpart from US-Island Qatar, as Iran and Washington appear to be at an ompress over the fate of talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal. On Wednesday, Iran had won Western State against rebuking it at the International Atomic Energy Agency after the U.N. atomic watchdog's latest report criticized the country, while the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said time was running out to revive the deal when the world passed. Now Qatar's foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Tani was in Iran days after Blinken visited the Gulf Arab state, which has good ties with Iran. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko have met in the Kremlin. The Russian Belarus formally opened vast joint military drills earlier in Thursday, a week-long exercise across the territory of both countries, and the Baltic Sea that has lumped some NATO countries. The Kremlin has proved a vital ally for Belarus after the West imposed sanctions on Minsk over a violent crackdown that followed a contested election which gave Lukashenko his sixth term in office.