Iran and Russia have reached an agreement on working to expand their financial and banking cooperation and remove the obstacles in the way of their ties under tough American sanctions.
Iran, Russia, and China are gearing up to run a series of major war drills in Latin America ‘in a show of force meant to signal how these militaries can reach the United States.’
Iran’s deputy minister of roads and urban development says the country and Russia have reached an agreement on the details of carrying 10 million tons of goods from Russia via the north-south corridor of the Islamic Republic.
An Iranian international affairs expert says the visit by chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani to Moscow immediately after the Doha talks on revival of the nuclear deal “did not look good”.
Iran’s chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani has met with Russian officials in Moscow in an unannounced visit as a follow-up on talks to restore the nuclear deal with the West.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with his Iranian opposite number Ebrahim Raisi as well as presidents of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan during his trip to Ashgabat, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told reporters on Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will certainly travel to Iran at some point, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, but added the exact date of the visit is yet unknown.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has captured the attention of Iranian social media users after her picture during a visit to Iran went viral while wearing Islamic veiling.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has slammed the United States for throwing a wrench in talks on a potential revival of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, reaffirming Moscow’s support for the stances adopted by Tehran in the course of the negotiations in defense of its rights.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Larvov, who is in Tehran at the invitation of his Iranian counterpart, on Wednesday met with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi.
Iran’s ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali has said Tehran regards its ties with Moscow as “a priority” under President Ebrahim Raeisi’s new policy of revitalizing relations with neighboring states.
The Iranian foreign ministry’s deputy for economic diplomacy has described relations with Russia as strategic calling for a focus on energy, trade and transit sectors to build on a surge in ties which he says saw a jump over the past months.
Officials from Russia’s healthcare sector have called for the expansion of ties with Tehran to meet the country’s needs for medical supplies by importing Iranian products.
Russia will not associate itself with the resolution on Iran if it is approved at the current session of the IAEA Board of Governors, a Russian diplomat says.
A political analyst says Russia may favor tensions between Iran and the West to divert attention from its military campaign against Ukraine, as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to issue a resolution drafted by the US and its European allies against Iran’s nuclear program soon.
Tehran and Moscow have discussed ways of tackling money laundering amid joint efforts between the two countries to minimize the impacts of foreign sanctions on their banking and financial sectors.
The Russia foreign minister expressed Moscow’s opposition to the anti-Iran resolution drafted by the US and three European countries at the meeting of the IAEA’s board of governors next week.
The ball is now in the US court to ensure a successful conclusion of the Vienna negotiations on restoring the Iran nuclear deal, a Russian diplomat says.
Russia’s envoy to the Vienna talks on Iran’s nuclear program has deplored the leakage of UN atomic energy agency reports to the media, saying the issue will fuel speculations before the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting next week.
Top Iranian and Russian security officials have slammed attempts by Western states to impose their own will on independent states through economic pressure, calling for the two countries to vastly broaden their economic cooperation against the Western sanctions targeting the two nations.
Tehran and Moscow have signed three major memoranda of understanding (MoU) to expand bilateral cooperation in the fields of energy and banking, Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji says.
