Iranian President Hassan Rouhani received the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu – TASS

TEHRAN, 21 February. / Corr. Alexander Levchenko TASS /. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani received the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu, who is in Tehran on a short visit.

This was reported by Irina channel.

Visit Shoigu in Iran is the continuation of the regular dialogue that lead Moscow and Tehran

“this is a return visit”, -. told Tass presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov

He said that earlier this week visited Moscow Iranian defense Minister Hossein dehgans. which he held a series of meetings the Russian capital. In addition, the Minister was received by President Vladimir Putin.
Then Peskov said that the meeting discussed various issues, including those affecting the “various issues of military-technical cooperation”.

In this case, an Iranian diplomatic source He said that the meeting discussed in detail the Syrian issues.

“The sides discussed the situation in Syria in the light of recent events,” – he said. Meanwhile, Iranian media reported that Sergei Shoigu gave Rouhani message from the Russian leader Vladimir Putin, concerning the negotiations on the Syrian settlement. The Kremlin does not comment on this information.

On February 16, Shoigu during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Dehghani he said that Russia and Iran are common challenges and threats in the region, which can only confront together. “I am confident that our meeting will contribute to the strengthening of friendly relations between the armed forces of Russia and Iran,” – the Russian minister said. According to him, the meeting of defense ministers of the two countries in Tehran and Moscow have determined the main directions of bilateral contacts between the military departments.

As Shoigu believes the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation in Tehran in January 2015, established a legal basis for increasing mutual cooperation between the defense departments in the long term.

“We believe that the practical implementation of bilateral cooperation projects will largely depend on the effectiveness of Russia and Iran measures to combat international terrorism. We stand for giving the Russian-Iranian cooperation in the the field of long-term and multi-faceted nature “, – said Shoigu

The head of the Defense Ministry said that Russia and Iran are ready to co-ordinate co-operation on a wide range of global and regional issues

“Long-term relationship between our two countries have a high level of trust, willingness to coordinate the approaches to a wide range of global and regional issues,” – said the Russian minister

He said that a powerful impetus to the development of the whole complex of bilateral cooperation. gave talks in Tehran in November 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin with the supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

“Of course, pay great attention to the agreements reached at the highest level”, -. the head of the Russian military departments.

“We welcome the termination of US actions and EU restrictive measures in relation to your country. This development becomes more topical in the conditions of growing crisis in the Middle East region “, – he said, referring to his Iranian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu

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