Iran-Russia Relations

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Russian counterpart have held talks on the sidelines of a Caspian Sea Summit held in the Kazakh city of Aktau.

Leaders of five Caspian Sea littoral states – Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan – on Sunday inked a historic Convention on the Legal Regime of the Caspian Sea as well as six other strategic and economic pacts.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has rejected the claim that the demarcation of the Caspian Sea is to be finalized in a meeting underway in Kazakhstan on Sunday, August 12.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is in the Kazakh port city of Aktau to attend the fifth summit of the leaders of five states bordering the Caspian Sea, during which a long-awaited convention on the legal status of the sea is to be signed.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday held separate talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and the French top diplomat Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Delegations of Iran, Turkey, and Russia, the three guarantor states of the ceasefire regime in Syria, have held a trilateral meeting in the Russian city of Sochi.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force says experts at his division have successfully overhauled and upgraded 10 Russian-made Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets and plans to equip them with cruise missile that have a range of 1,500 km.

The Europeans have reportedly put forward a ludicrous proposal on buying Iran’s crude oil as part of their efforts to save the Iran nuclear deal.

Russia’s Ambassador to Iran Levan Dzhagaryan has clearly stated that his country is naturally concerned over a military confrontation between Tehran and Tel Aviv, and is trying to prevent that from happening.

The Russian president’s special envoy on Thursday briefed Iranian officials on the details and results of the recent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump in Helsinki.

Russia's special presidential envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev will pay a visit to Tehran on Wednesday to brief the Iranian leadership on results of the recent Trump-Putin summit in Finland, a report said.

Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, says Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is going to meet his US counterpart in Helsinki, is a logical and predictable politician unlike Donald Trump.

A senior advisor to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, has conveyed his message and that of Iranian President to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution who is in Russia for an official visit, shrugged off the concurrent trip to Russia by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying, “Nobody cares about his words.”

Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, is going to visit Russia and China to convey messages from Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani to Russian and Chinese leaders.

Conservative newspaper Kayhan has called on the Iranian government to stop relying on the West and form a consortium with Russia, India and China as an alternative to cope with the West’s economic pressure.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the country is optimistic that efforts by other parties to the Iran nuclear deal would bear fruit and save the 2015 agreement.

Iran has sent a number of police officers to Russia to help the Iranian football fans and cooperate with Russian security forces in establishing security and order during the FIFA World Cup 2018, a security official said.

Russian officials have officially expressed their intention to make a $50 billion investment in Iran’s oil industry, a media report says.

Senior Assistant to Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari has held intensive bilateral and multilateral talks with top Russian and Turkish delegates, and the UN Special Envoy in Geneva.

Representatives from Iran, Russia, and Turkey are meeting in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss establishing a committee tasked with drafting Syria's new constitution.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says there was a global support for the JCPOA during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in China.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his government is eager to see Iran joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as a full member, in a show of friendship between Tehran and Moscow.

An advisor to the Iranian President has opposed pushes for closer ties with the eastern bloc, saying the Islamic Republic has been and must remain “independent”.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is going to meet his Russian and Chinese counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, to discuss the fate of the 2015 nuclear deal.