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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Russia after receiving an invitation from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Iranian government announced on December 28.
Putin has invited Rais to visit Moscow early next year “as part of a strategic interaction between Iran and Russia,” said Ali Bahadori Jahromi.
In this visit is expected to talk about “bilateral, regional and national cooperation” and in particular about “economic and trade cooperation”, said Bahadori Jahromi.
An Iranian president’s last visit to Russia took place in March 2017, when Hassan Rohani, a moderate politician, visited Moscow.
Raisi, who is from the hard line, took over the presidency in August 2021.
According to the Kremlin website, Rais’s invitation was made by Putin earlier this month during a joint press conference with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Russia and Iran have good relations and are key allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom they supported during the civil war in Syria.
Russia is also one of the signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal that Iran reached with world powers. Under the deal, Tehran would benefit from easing sanctions in exchange for curbing its nuclear program.
Moscow is also taking part in talks in Vienna aimed at reviving the deal after the United States pulled out of the pact in 2018 and reinstated economic sanctions on Iran.
Since the US withdrawal from the agreement, Iran has begun to gradually violate the terms of the agreement, including uranium enrichment beyond the permissible limits in this nuclear pact.
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