Putin held a flurry of phone calls on Monday with four Arab Gulf state ​leaders, offering to use Moscow’s ties to Tehran - with ​which it has a strategic partnership - to try ⁠and defuse tensions in the region.

“Putin will certainly make every ​effort to contribute to at least a slight easing of ​tensions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.

“Yesterday’s discussions with virtually all of his interlocutors focused on Putin conveying his deep concern ​about the strikes on their infrastructure to our colleagues ​in Iran, taking advantage of the dialogue we maintain with the Iranian ‌leadership.”

Oil ⁠prices rose on Tuesday for a third day as Iran responded to U.S. and Israeli attacks with strikes against energy infrastructure in Gulf countries and against tankers in the Strait ​of Hormuz.

Putin offered his condolences to ⁠the family of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a note to President Masoud ​Pezeshkian over the weekend, but the Kremlin ​has not ⁠publicised any further contact with senior Iranian leadership since the strikes began on Saturday.

Putin has also not spoken with U.S. ⁠President ​Donald Trump, and Peskov said there ​were no plans for such a conversation at this time.