Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf is in Moscow, where he announced yesterday that he had handed off a message to Russian President Valdimir Putin from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “In this message, the Supreme Leader of Iran thanked the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China for their just position. Gratitude is expressed there,” Qalibaf said during a meeting with scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Oriental Studies yesterday.
Qalibaf also met with Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian legislature. “I am authorized to convey the message to Russian President Vladimir Putin from Iranian leader Ali Khamenei,” he said, reported Sputnik. “This message states that the relations between Russia and Iran are strategic in nature. These relations are deep, and they will be based on long-term planning for 20–50 years. The political environment in those countries that profess unilateral approaches will never have an impact or influence on the strategic partnership relations between Russia and Iran.”
