MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia wants Iran to continue its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.

Iran's parliament approved a bill on Wednesday to suspend cooperation with the IAEA, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, after Israel and the United States bombed Iran's nuclear sites with the aim of preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Lavrov noted that the Iranian parliament did not have executive power so its decision was advisory in nature. "We are interested in Iran's cooperation with the IAEA continuing," he told a press conference.

"We are interested in everyone respecting the Supreme Leader of Iran, who has repeatedly stated that Iran does not and will not have plans to create nuclear weapons."