MOSCOW, Sept 10 (Askume) – Russia has almost completed the procedures needed to sign a new bilateral treaty with Iran, state news agency TASS quoted senior security official Sergei Shoigu as saying on Tuesday.
Shoigu said: “We hope for an early conclusion of a new basic inter-state treaty. We are completing the necessary internal procedures and preparing documents for the president’s signature.”
In the two and a half years since the war in Ukraine began, Russia has developed close ties with other hostile countries of the United States, including Iran and North Korea.
The United States accuses both countries of aiding Russia’s war effort, but Moscow denies that. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said earlier on Tuesday that Russia had received ballistic missiles from Iran and could use them within weeks.
A senior Iranian official on Monday denied reports that Tehran had supplied such missiles to Moscow.
Russia has been signaling its intention to sign a major partnership treaty with the Islamic republic for some time, but Shoigu’s announcement is the strongest sign yet that such an agreement is imminent.
