Rear Admiral Shamkhani and his counterparts from Russia, China, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan will discuss the latest security developments in the region.
The initiative to hold the meeting was first launched by Iran. The first conference happened in 2018 in Tehran on the crisis in Afghanistan.
The second security conference also convened in Tehran in 2019 with high-ranking and security officials of Russia, China, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in attendance.