Russian leaders told President Donald Trump during a phone call on Monday that they denied widely reported allegations that they are sharing intelligence with Iran during the United States’s war on that country, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said during a CNBC interview on Tuesday.
“We can take them at their word,” Witkoff told CNBC’s “Money Movers.”
“Let’s hope that they’re not sharing,” he said.
U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff speaks during a meeting of the Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Jan. 29, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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Trump spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday.
“Yesterday, on the call with the president, the Russians said they have not been sharing,” Witkoff said Tuesday.
MS Now, in a report on Saturday that cited two U.S. officials with knowledge of the situation, reported that Russia has been giving Iran information that could help that nation’s forces strike American ships, aircraft and military bases in the Middle East.
“Russia is providing intelligence help to Iran,” one of the officials told MS Now.
Asked Tuesday whether the Russians had been sharing intelligence with Iran, Witkoff demurred.
“Well, I’m not an intelligence officer, so I can’t tell you,” he said.
Trump on Friday blasted Fox News reporter Peter Doocy for asking him about suggestions that Russia was helping Iran target and attack American forces in the region.
“What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time,” Trump snapped.
One official who spoke to MS Now for Saturday’s article said, “I’ve seen nothing that suggests that Russia is playing a strategic or tactical combat role.”
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