Iran, Russia to mull boosting military cooperation
Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan will
visit Russia on Feb. 15, at the invitation of his Russian
counterpart to discuss ways to boost mutual military
cooperation.
During the visit, Dehghan is scheduled to hold meetings with senior
Russian political and military officials, including Sergei Shoigu,
Russian defense minister, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported Feb.
14.
Alongside with the military cooperation issue, the two parties also
will discuss regional and international issues as well as matters
of mutual interest.
Dehghan’s visit will come days after Ali Akbar Velayati, Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's senior adviser on international
affairs, announced that Iran plans to boost defense cooperation
with Russia and buy more weaponry from Moscow.
Earlier in January 2015 Shoigu visited Tehran, being Russia's first
acting defense minister in 15 years to visit Iran.
During the visit the two sides signed an intergovernmental
agreement on “long term and multifaceted” military cooperation.
Tehran and Moscow also share the same stance towards various
regional issues including the ongoing crisis in Syria.
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