According to TASS, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Aug. 8: “We think that when the idea of BRICS’ expansion is translated into reality, this association will become a really global integration structure.… As a matter of fact, this is the first efficient political and economic association to be ever established in the developing world.”
Abdollahian was speaking at a conference in Tehran dedicated to cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and BRICS, organized by Iran’s Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), a Foreign Ministry think tank. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, who was on a working visit in Tehran on Aug. 7-8, took part in the conference, according to a Russian Foreign Ministry press release (https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1900020/)
