Assembly of Iranian and Russian leaders in Tehran got here shortly forward of trilateral summit with Turkey’s President Erdogan.
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has informed Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that had he not began the conflict in Ukraine, NATO, the “harmful creature”, would have achieved it will definitely.
“Conflict is a violent and troublesome difficulty and the Islamic Republic is by no means blissful that civilians get caught up in it, however regarding Ukraine, had you not taken the initiative, the opposite aspect would have taken the initiative and prompted the conflict,” Khamenei was quoted as saying by his web site after he met with Putin in Tehran on Tuesday.
He mentioned the West is against a robust and impartial Russia, including: “NATO would know no bounds if the best way was open to it, and if it was not stopped in Ukraine, it might begin the identical conflict utilizing Crimea as an excuse.”
Putin was quoted as calling the lack of civilian life within the conflict a “huge tragedy”, however blaming the West for inflicting a Russian “response”.
“Some Western nations had mentioned we’re towards Ukraine’s membership in NATO however we agreed to it underneath stress from the US, which reveals their lack of independence,” the Russian chief was quoted as saying.
The 2 leaders additionally reportedly mentioned bilateral relations and regularly eradicating the US greenback from bilateral commerce, along with Syria, Israel, and South Caucasus.
Putin additionally met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on Tuesday. The conferences got here shortly forward of a trilateral summit on Syria with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had sat down with Khamenei and Raisi hours earlier.
The workplace of the supreme chief revealed a picture of Khamenei shaking palms with the Russian president, a uncommon prevalence because the COVID-19 pandemic. Khamenei had solely shaken palms with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s different main ally within the area, who had made a shock go to to Tehran in Might.
A clip of Putin’s assembly with Raisi confirmed them praising enhancements in bilateral relations and cooperation throughout the area.
“When it comes to worldwide safety, we are going to improve our cooperation,” Putin mentioned, including that the 2 nations play a significant position in making certain Syria’s safety.
The Iranian president informed him cooperation between Iran and Russia has created stability and safety within the area.
“Nations that made claims about combating terrorism in West Asia didn’t take any significant steps on this regard, but it surely was the Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia that confirmed their actually and critical will by means of critical cooperation on combating terrorism,” Raisi mentioned.
That is Putin’s fifth journey to Tehran and his second overseas go to since he launched the conflict in Ukraine in February. Putin first visited the Iranian capital in 2007, and subsequently in 2015, 2017, and 2018.
His go to comes days after US President Joe Biden completed a tour of the area that noticed him go to Israel, the occupied West Financial institution, and Saudi Arabia, the place he additionally met with regional Arab leaders.
$40bn vitality settlement
The conferences come after Putin’s delegation, which had arrived late on Monday, earlier on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) price $40bn with Iran on creating oil and fuel fields.
Based on the Iranian oil ministry’s official information outlet, the MoU was signed between Russian vitality large Gazprom and the Nationwide Iranian Oil Firm and covers the event of the Kish and North Pars fuel fields, in addition to six oil fields.
The non-binding settlement comes as the present whole quantity of Russian investments in Iranian vitality fields stands at $4bn, Iranian officers mentioned.
Iran has the second-largest reserves of pure fuel on the planet after Russia however has lagged in increasing its infrastructure resulting from sanctions which have prevented overseas investments.
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