Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) summit in Tehran on November 23, 2015. And Iran has to modify its heavy water reactor at Arak so that it will be unable to produce plutonium for a nuclear weapon.
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Moscow and Tehran have been the key backers of Assad throughout his nation’s civil war, which has killed over 250,000 people and turned millions into refugees.
The supreme leader also shared Putin’s long-stated stance that the Syrians must decide the future of their country on their own, without outside interference.
“We expect that after sanctions are lifted Iran will prefer to work with the Russian Federation on many tracks especially in hi-tech areas such as aviation, aerospace, radio electronics, shipbuilding”, Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin said.
Russian companies can now also carry out activities linked to Iranian exports of enriched uranium of more than 300 kilograms in exchange for the supplies of natural uranium to Iran, the Russian decree said.
The presidential aide did not rule out that Putin could meet with Bolivian President Evo Morales, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other leaders on the sidelines of the gas summit.
In one agreement between the governments of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation, the two countries’ foreign ministers agreed to facilitate mutual travel conditions for the citizens of the two countries, Iranian President’s official website reported.
With Putin seen to be fighting the good war on the side of the West, and with new prospects of a solution to the seemingly endless crisis in Syria, it becomes clear that the economic sanctions against Russian Federation following the Ukraine war can not really continue.
Putin ordered Russia’s first military campaign outside the former Soviet Union in decades to bolster Assad’s regime.
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Under the July nuclear deal, six world powers secured a pledge by Iran to set long-term limits on its nuclear research.
