Putin emphasizes to Iran’s acting president the need to increase cooperation between both countries

June 14 () –

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, held a phone call this Thursday with his acting counterpart of Iran, Mohamad Mojber, in which he emphasized the need to increase cooperation between both countries, especially in the energy and transportation sectors. transport.

In that sense, Putin has called for the “full implementation” of his bilateral agenda, which also aims to further strengthen their trade relations, according to the semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr.

The Russian president has given special importance to the ‘International North-South Transit Corridor’, which allows the country to access Asian markets and, according to British Intelligence, this route has acquired great importance since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine because it allows it to trade in arms in a “less vulnerable” way to international sanctions.

Likewise, they have spoken about the BRICS, the Eurasian Economic Union and the signing of free market agreements between the latter entity and Iran.

Finally, Putin has wished “success” to the Iranian people in the face of the next presidential elections, set for June 28, and which will be held on the occasion of the death of the country’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter accident that occurred at the end of May in the province of East Azerbaijan (northwest), and in which the Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian, and the rest of the crew also died.