Russian president’s envoy due in Iran for Mideast talks
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov plans to pay an official visit to Iran to hold talks with the country’s senior officials on mutual relations and key developments in the Middle East.
Bogdanov, who serves as Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy to the Middle East, will arrive in Tehran later on Sunday.
The Russian diplomat is scheduled to sit down with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari on Monday.
Bogdanov’s visit to Iran comes less than a week after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Russian counterpart held talks in the Azeri capital city of Baku.
Presidents of Iran and Russia, who were in Baku to participate in a trilateral summit with their Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, stressed the importance of accelerating the development of bilateral relations in all fields, saying Tehran and Moscow need to make more efforts to speed up the development of all-out cooperation.
Iran and Russia are Syria's main allies against the various foreign-backed armed groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad, including Daesh terrorists.
Since September 30, 2015, Russia has been conducting airstrikes against Daesh and other terrorist groups in Syria at the Syrian government’s request.
Iran has also been providing advisory military assistance to the Syrian government.
Syria has been gripped by a foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
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