Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian in Ashgabat on 11 October 11 2024. (Alexander SHCHERBAK / POOL / AFP)
- Vladimir Putin met Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian in Turkmenistan.
- They need to speed up the rising cooperation between their international locations.
- A brand new world order is forming, Putin mentioned.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin held talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday in Turkmenistan, the place the 2 leaders hailed their international locations rising financial ties and comparable views on world affairs, an entente considered with concern by the US.
At odds with Washington and the European Union over Russia’s warfare in Ukraine, one thing he casts as a part of a wider existential wrestle towards an conceited and self-interested West – Putin is eager to deepen ties with what he calls the International East and International South.
Putin, whose nation is internet hosting a summit of the BRICS nations in Kazan from 22 October, invited Pezeshkian to come back to Russia on an official go to, a proposal the Iranian chief accepted in response to Russia’s state RIA information company.
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“Economically and culturally, our communications are being strengthened day-to-day and changing into extra sturdy,” Pezeshkian was cited as telling Putin by Iran’s official IRNA information company.
“The rising development of cooperation between Iran and Russia, contemplating the need of the highest leaders of each international locations, have to be accelerated to strengthen these ties,” he mentioned.
Pezeshkian final month dedicated his nation to deeper ties with Russia to counter Western sanctions. The 2 international locations say they’re near signing a strategic partnership settlement, one thing Pezeshkian mentioned on Friday he hoped might be finalised on the BRICS summit in Russia later this month.
The US regards Moscow’s rising relationship with Tehran with concern. It has accused Iran of supplying Russia with ballistic missiles to be used within the battle in Ukraine, one thing Tehran has denied.
New world order rising, says Putin
Russia says cooperation with Iran is increasing in all areas.
“We actively work collectively within the worldwide area, and our assessments of present occasions on the earth are sometimes very shut,” the TASS information company cited Putin as telling Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the convention within the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat.
Pezeshkian, in response to IRNA, famous that Iran and Russia had vital complementary capacities and will help one another. “Our positions on the earth are a lot nearer to one another than to others,” he was quoted as telling the Russian chief.
Pezeshkian mentioned earlier that Israel ought to “cease killing harmless folks”, and its actions within the Center East have been backed by the US and EU. Russia has additionally criticised Israel, which says it’s defending its personal safety, for bombing civilian areas.
Putin was cited by TASS as telling Pezeshkian that financial ties between Moscow and Tehran have been on the up.
In feedback launched by the Kremlin earlier on Friday, Putin advised the convention within the Central Asian nation {that a} new world order was being fashioned and that new centres of financial development and monetary and political affect have been rising.
Russia supported “the broadest potential worldwide dialogue” on the rising multipolar world and was open to discussing it inside numerous fora, together with the Commonwealth of Unbiased States, the Eurasian Financial Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and BRICS, mentioned Putin.