Relations between Russia and Iran have strengthened in recent years, especially in the context of the Ukrainian conflict, in which Moscow has the support of Tehran, which has supplied ‘drones’ and even missiles to the Russian side, according to the West.
The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkianwill travel to Russia on January 17th to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Moscow, as part of the rapprochement between the two nations after the .
According to the state news agency TASS, Iran’s ambassador to Moscow, Kazem Jalali, reported that the two leaders will meet in Moscow to sign the so-called “Global Cooperation Agreement”, after the text was finalized last October.
The last time the two men met was on the occasion of the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, last October. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev invited Pezeshkian to officially travel to Russia in late December.
The invitation comes after Russia and North Korea signed a strategic partnership agreement that includes a mutual defense clause and which led Pyongyang to send North Korean troops to Russian territory to be deployed in Ukraine.
West accuses Iran of supplying Russia
The United States and other Western countries have accused Tehran of supplying Moscow with dozens of missiles to be used in the conflict that began in February 2022, following the invasion of the neighboring country by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In October, Putin and Pezeshkian met in Turkmenistan.
Relations between Russia and Iran have strengthened in recent years, especially in the context of the Ukrainian conflict, in which Moscow has the support of Tehran, which has supplied ‘drones’ and even missiles to the Russian side, according to the West.
In November, Tehran and Moscow linked their banking systems to boost trade and financial transactions in an attempt to counter economic sanctions from the United States and Europe.
