Sharjah24 - Reuters: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the signing of a strategic partnership treaty between the two countries, Russia's TASSstate news agency reported.
Pezekshian, on his first Kremlin visit since winning the presidency last July after the death in a helicopter crash of his predecessor, is due to hold talks with Putin focusing on bilateral ties and international issues before signing the treaty.
Russia has cultivated closer ties with Iran and other countries hostile towards the U.S., such as North Korea, since the start of the Ukraine war, and has strategic pacts with Pyongyang and close ally Belarus, as well as a strategic partnership agreement with China.
The 20-year Russia-Iran agreement, which will include provisions for closer defence cooperation, is likely to worry the West which sees both countries as malign influences on the world stage.
Moscow and Tehran say their increasingly close ties are not directed against other countries.
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