Russian President Vladimir Putin says Iran and Russia should boost the volume of their trade exchanges, making more use of the two countries’ national currencies for payments. The Spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov explained that Putin and Khamenei have both totally rejected “any external attempt to dictate scenarios of political settlements” regarding the strife in Syria.
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The leaders then held a press conference, during which Putin said, “We will provide maximum assistance to implement a corresponding action plan within the framework of the Iranian nuclear program, approved in July by the UN Security Council”.
The system is considered among the finest of its type in the world and a possible serious threat to Israel’s air supremacy.
Significantly in the immediate run-up to Putin’s visit to Tehran reports began appearing that Russian Federation has started the delivery of the S-300 missile system to Iran.
He reiterated that Moscow’s decisions and measures on the issue of Syria have fortified Russia’s and Mr. Putin’s reputation in the region and in the world.
Rouhani, for his part, said the signing of the MoUs showed bilateral cooperation between Russian Federation and Iran is moving towards further development.
Meanwhile, the US State Department has said that it only wanted a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis.
Putin, whose comments were published on his official website, also said: “We will continue mutually beneficial cooperation in nuclear energy”.
Russian Federation and Iran have also been participating in talks with the United States, Arab and European countries seeking to end the four-year Syrian civil war, which has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced about half the nation’s pre-war population of 22 million people, sending millions to neighboring Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan and hundreds of thousands to Europe.
The documents were signed in the presence of the two countries’ presidents Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani, TASS reported. First up was the situation in Syria, where the government’s army is slowly but surely leading the offensive against the radical Islamists.
Russian Federation had one month earlier launched a wave of airstrikes in support of Assad, whose Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, has close ties to Iran, the Middle East’s main Shiite power.
But Russia and the West remain at loggerheads over the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
But Moscow s aim of an worldwide coalition made up of Iran, Jordan and other regional and Western countries against IS is coming up against deadlock over Assad s future, which recent peace talks in Vienna failed to break.
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Furthermore, another MoU was inked between the Iranian deputy energy minister and the president of the Russian Energy Agency with the goal of assimilating the two countries’ power transmission networks.
