Iran, Russia have deep-rooted, developing ties in various fields: Top security official

Iran and Russia have deep-rooted and expanding relations in various economic, defense, military, security and scientific fields, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani says.

Shamkhani made the remarks upon his arrival in Moscow where he is scheduled to participate in the fifth round of the regional security dialogue in the Russian capital of Moscow on Wednesday.
He noted that it was necessary to review the roadmap drawn up by the two countries’ top officials for strengthening bilateral cooperation over the next two decades.
Back in January, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the Iranian and Russian presidents have tasked the top diplomats of the two countries with working out the 20-year roadmap for cooperation.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Shamkhani said the participants at the regional security dialogue meeting would discuss the latest political, economic and security developments in Afghanistan.
Iran’s top security official noted that the problems of the Afghan people are rooted in the ineffectiveness of the occupying forces and the post-occupation incidents.
The ways to settle issues in the war-stricken country would be discussed in the Moscow meeting, given the fact that “Afghanistan can become a crisis point in the region,” he said.
Looking at all regional countries hit by foreign intervention, he went on, one can see that the problems in those countries are caused by two central issues, namely “creating discord within them and preventing the resolution of regional crises by the countries of the region themselves.”
He further emphasized that extra-regional powers are the ones sowing discord in regional countries and interfering in their internal affairs in an attempt to limit their power to solve regional crises.