🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — NEW: Declassified transcripts reveal direct exchanges between Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, and Condoleezza Rice over Iran’s nuclear program and Moscow’s influence in a 2008 meeting.

➡️ Putin said Russia would curb its assistance to Iran, including limiting missile-related support, and argued that if Tehran were supplied with nuclear fuel, it would have no legitimate reason to enrich uranium itself.

➡️ He then stated bluntly, "There is no doubt they want a nuclear weapon."

➡️ Bush praised Russia’s leverage: "He took the lead on Iran, and I followed. It was the right thing to do."

➡️ Putin called the Iranians "quite nuts" and Bush called them "nutty" when it came to arms sales and their pressure tactics. However, Putin noted after a visit to Iran, "They may be crazy in their ideology, but they’re intellectuals… They are not primitive people."