In an interview with IRNA, Sha'banian who heads Iran’s delegation to Russia’s Int’l Military-Technical Forum "ARMY-2021", expressed content over the fact that relations between Iran and Russia have gone through a favorable forward path and that the two sides have reached a good level of bilateral confidence and influence over regional issues.
He underlined that Iranian government and armed forces have a serious determination in expanding all-out cooperation with Russia.
Multilateral cooperation to establish peace and security, and activating regional mechanism on other issues such as the situation in Afghanistan, the Caucasus, and other regions is of great importance, as said by Sha'banian.
Expressing content over the close, consistent and longtime nature of Iran-Russia cooperation in defense area, he added that tremendous capacity has been provided for bilateral cooperation between Iran and friendly counties, such as Russia, after the UN arms restriction on Iran was removed in October 2020.
Both Tehran and Moscow are determined to elevate the level of defense cooperation commission and to diversify cooperation subjects, according to Sha'banian.
Brigadier General Sha'banian attended the event in Moscow on behalf of Iran’s Defense Minister and at the invitation of the Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu.
The seventh exhibition and competition of Russia’s Int’l Military-Technical Forum entitled "ARMY-2021" kicked off on Monday and was attended by several officials from different countries, including Iran.
At the same time, international army games “Army 2021” is held in military training fields in 12 regions of Russia and Iran has also attended the competition along with several other countries.
The army games cover 34 categories. Iran, China, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Qatar, India, Algeria, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and Armenia have participated in the competition.
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