Russia hopes to sign a new bilateral treaty with Iran soon

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September 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that Moscow hopes to sign a new bilateral treaty with Iran soon amid tensions over Tehran’s missile deployment in the Ukraine war.

“We hope to sign a new interstate framework agreement soon and we are finalizing the internal procedures necessary to prepare the documents for signature by the presidents,” said the former Russian defense minister.

Shoigu met with Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Akhbar Ahmadian on Tuesday on the sidelines of a meeting of senior representatives of the BRICS and BRICS-wide group of emerging economies, TASS news agency reported.

The United States has accused Iran of supplying Russia with dozens of missiles with a range of about 120 kilometers so that they can be used to attack targets at close range and so that Russian forces can draw on their own arsenal for bombings further away from the front line in Ukraine.

Iranian Foreign Minister Naser Kanani has criticised the US for “spreading false and misleading news about Iranian arms transfers” in order to “hide the dimensions of massive arms support” from Washington and other Western countries to Israel in its “genocide” in the Gaza Strip.