Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Peeshkian, signed a giant cooperation pact on Friday while his country deepened his association against the western sanctions stinking.
Russian and Iranian officials say that the “complete treaty of the strategic association” covers all spaces, from the cooperation of the industry and the army to science, schooling and culture.
Putin praised the agreement as a “real advance, creating for the solid and sustainable progression of Russia, Iran and the total region. “
He said that the amount of economic cooperation and industry was still insufficient, expressing the hope that the new treaty will help them expand them. He said that countries seek technical obstacles to advance the projects provided to send fuel based on Russian herbs to Iran and build shipping runners to Iranian ports in the Gulf.
The visit of fishshkian was advanced to the inauguration of President -elect Donald Trump, who has pledged to negotiate peace in Ukraine and adopt a harder position on Iran, which is dealing with increasing economic problems and other challenges, including military setbacks in The Middle East.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, has rejected any link with the inauguration of Trump, which the firm had planned a long time ago.
The signing of the treaty with Iran follows the pact last year with North Korea, previously known countries through former President George W. Bush, with Iraq, as “the axis of evil” set “
Unlike the treaty in Pyongyang, the pact with Tehran does not foresee mutual assistance on the occasion of assault. But that forces the country not to offer the army aid or no other helps an attacker attacker.
Moscow and Tehran, who faced Western sanctions, agreed to coordinate their reaction to such restrictions and facilitate invoices in national currencies. The PACT also plans to exchange intelligence and cooperation data on security issues.
Fishshkian under the pressure that the countries of the region resolve their own disorders, saying that, in an obvious reference in the United States, the presence of external forces will only exacerbate tensions and destabilize the situation.
“They come from the other of the global to make chaos in the region,” he said. “These links will calm their plot, definitely. “
Russia’s links with Iran were closer after Putin sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine and the West accused Tehran of having provided Moscow as pile of drones to attack Ukrainearray that Moscow and Tehran denied.
Pezeshkian brought the ground to any peace conversation in Russia-Ukraine, claiming that “war is not a solution” and urging the West to “avoid applying higher applications” and detecting “security disorders of others. “
Last year, Iran joined the BRICS block of the nearby economies and fishshkian attended its summit, organized through Russia in Kazan.
Russia and Iran, who had disturbed relations in the past, evolved cordial links after the Cave of the Soviet Union in 1991, with Moscow emerging as a key commercial spouse and a provider of weapons and technologies for Tehran, which faced sanctions foreigners
Russia built the first Iranian nuclear force plant that was introduced in 2013 and built two other nuclear reactors there.
Russia was a component of the 2015 agreement between Iran and six nuclear powers that provide relief of sanctions in Tehran in exchange for relief from its atomic program, and Kremlin presented politician to Iran when Trump retired the United States from the agreement.
Russia and Iran also accumulated their efforts to consolidate the Bashar Assad government the Civil War of Syria, but they did not save your fall last month after an opposition offensive through the opposition. Assad and his circle of relatives fled to Russia.
His evidence hit the “resistance axis” in Tehran in the region, which had already been beaten through Israel’s offensives opposed to two militant teams supported through Iran: Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah Lebanon. Israel has also attacked Iran directly twice.
Tehran needs Moscow’s help while facing economic misfortunes and stinking setbacks through its sphere of influence in the Middle East. The problems can be deepened after Trump returned to the White House with his “maximum pressure” policy in Iran.
In particular, Iran needs complicated Russian weapons, such as long -range air defense systems and combat plans to attend to repel the imaginable attacks by Israel.
Isachenkov writes for Associated Press. The writers Ap Jon Gumbrell in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and Nasser Karimi in Tehran.
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