Russia’s second largest bank, VTB Bank, has launched its representative office in the Iranian capital Tehran in line with the banking and economic agreements reached between the neighboring countries.
Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have discussed the ways to promote economic relations and bilateral cooperation in the fields of international transit and infrastructure projects.
Iran’s Minister of Youths Affairs, Hamid Sajjadi and his Russian counterpart Oleg Matytsin signed MoU to expand cooperation in different sports fields.
The chief executive of Tabriz Petrochemical Company (TCP) and executives from several Russian companies agreed to boost cooperation in a meeting held in the capital Moscow.
The 120-member Russian business and economic delegation will come to Tehran on Monday (November 14, 2022) and then travel to the cities of Rasht, Anzali and Isfahan.
In an interview with Iran Press correspondent in Russia, Shahriar Afandizadeh stated that the North-South Corridor is one of the most important transportation routes that Iran and Russia emphasize in increasing transit through it.
In a telephone call with Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto on Thursday, the Iranian FM Hossein Amir-Abdollahian discussed the bilateral relations, JCPOA talks for lifting sanction, and recent unrest in Iran.
"Our main strategy concerning the sanctions issue is their neutralization and mitigation of their consequences. I assume that it is a very good accumulated experience, and that we can share it with our Russian counterparts," Mokhber said at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
Iran and Russia share strategic interests in bilateral fields, especially economic, military, and security relations, as well as regional and international issues such as confronting American unilateralism, and this has been one of the main factors of close cooperation between the two sides in recent years.
It is reported that positive assessment figures for the activities of the Prime Minister and the Russian government over the past week dropped to 52.6%
The Iran Currency Exchange (ICE) listed the ruble-rial trading pair in July, following a trip to Moscow by the Iranian central bank governor Ali Salehabadi earlier in the month.