The situation in the region is pushing Iran to purchase weapons. A meeting of the joint commission on military-technical cooperation with Russia will be held in Tehran soon
Moscow. October 19. INTERFAX - Iran and Russia will soon hold a meeting of the commission on military-technical cooperation (MTC), which will be given a new incentive, said the chief of the Iranian General Staff Mohammad Bagheri.
"A meeting of the joint military-technical commission will be held in Tehran soon. I think that our cooperation in this area will develop," he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel (VGTRK).
"We are making efforts to develop a long-term roadmap that will give a new impetus to our cooperation in this area," Bagheri said (translated by Rossiya-24 TV channel).
"Due to the fact that our country has been living under sanctions for more than 40 years, we produce the lion's share of weapons ourselves. But there are some aspects that we have not been able to translate into practical production or economic considerations do not allow them to be implemented. And then we turn to our Russian colleagues and conclude military contracts," he said, answering a question about the prospects of military-technical cooperation with Russia after the lifting of restrictions on Iran by the UN Security Council.
"In particular, after the lifting of UN sanctions, the purchase of weapons is actively developing. In addition, the situation in the region pushes us to such cooperation," Bagheri said.
In 2016, Viktor Ozerov, then the head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, said that Iran was interested in the supply of military equipment from the Russian Federation for almost $ 10 billion.
On October 19, the press service of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) of Russia stated that Moscow is ready to develop military-technical cooperation with Tehran, which is interested in Russian military products.
"Russia and Iran have a long-standing cooperation, and Tehran is really interested in a wide range of Russian military products. For our part, we see all the prospects for the development of military-technical cooperation with Iran," the press service of the Federal Customs Service of Russia said in a statement.
On Tuesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met with Iranian Chief of the General Staff Mohammad Bagheri in Moscow. "I thank you for the unprecedented large-scale cooperation that is developing between our countries," Bagheri said at the meeting.
On October 18, Bagheri held talks with the Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
In 2016, Russia fulfilled a contract for the supply of long-range S-300 Favorit air defense systems (Almaz-Antey Concern) to Iran.
It was officially reported that in December 2006, Russia fulfilled the contract for the supply of 29 short-range air defense systems "Tor-M1" to Iran.
In November 2019, at an air show in Dubai, the director of the Russian Federal Customs Service, Dmitry Shugaev, said that Moscow was ready to expand military-technical cooperation with Tehran after the lifting of restrictions through the UN Security Council.
