Iranian Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani met together with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the BRICS Ministerial Council assembly in Nizhny Novgorod.
During the assembly, Foreign Minister Bagheri Kani expressed his gratitude to the Russian facet for expressing sympathy to Iran on the tragic deaths of the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raeishi and his nation’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian.
He stated Iran-Russia relations had been based mostly on the long-term pursuits of each nations and careworn that the connection would proceed to be based mostly on mutual pursuits.
The high Iranian diplomat famous the alignment, frequent place and cooperation between the 2 nations in regional and worldwide boards, and careworn the necessity to take further steps to cease the Zionist regime’s crimes in Gaza and Rafah.
Bagheri Kani additionally careworn the necessity to leverage the capabilities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the BRICS grouping to counter US unilateralism and unlawful actions.
Meanwhile, Lavrov praised Raeisi and Amir Abdullahian for his or her position in deepening ties between Tehran and Moscow.
He additionally referred to as for persevering with the pattern of increasing relations between Tehran and Moscow in all spheres and expressed his nation’s readiness to observe this pattern.
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