Desk Report
Publish: 18 Jan 2022, 09:58 pm
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin || Photo: Collected
Russian
President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in
Moscow on Wednesday, the Kremlin said, amid talks aimed at reviving the Iran
nuclear deal.
The
meeting will be Raisi's most important official visit abroad since he took
office in August, and the first visit by an Iranian president to Russia since
2017.
The
leaders will discuss the "whole range of issues of bilateral cooperation",
including the 2015 deal that offered Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for
curbs on its nuclear programme, the Kremlin said in a statement.
In
2018, Washington announced its unilateral withdrawal from the agreement under
former president Donald Trump, prompting Iran to walk back on its commitments.
Since
last year, Iran has been in talks with the signatories of the accord -- the
United States, France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany -- to restore the
deal, but negotiations stopped in June after Raisi's election.
They
resumed in November.
Russia's
foreign minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this month noted "real progress"
in the talks.
Moscow
and Tehran have strong political, economic and military ties, shared interests
in Afghanistan, and are key allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his
country's decade-long civil war.
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