Moscow and Tehran have taken their cooperation to the level of strategic partnership with a “truly epochal” pact, Farhad Ibrahimov, a Middle East expert at the Moscow-based Valdai Discussion Club, told RT on Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed a major bilateral security pact in Moscow on Friday. The bilateral Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership states that Russia and Iran will boost security, naval, economic, and humanitarian cooperation for the next 20 years.
“This agreement is truly epochal,” Ibrahimov said. “Russia and Iran have reached a new level of cooperation.”
The two BRICS+ states see each other as key strategic partners which share similar world views, he added.