Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr. 3
Trend:
Russia will develop military-technical cooperation with Tehran after the lifting of sanctions against Iran, the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Andrey Klimov told RIA Novosti news agency April 3.
"Iran needs it, it is not a safe zone there given Yemen and ISIS, and someone's significant superiority of forces surely provokes aggression," the senator said.
As a result of the next round of talks on Tehran's nuclear program, the P5+1 group of international mediators and Iran agreed that the two thirds of the country's capacity on uranium enrichment will be suspended for ten years. Iran is also obliged to put all its uranium enrichment programs under international supervision for a period of 25 years.
At the same time, Iran is counting on "reciprocity", in particular - lifting of financial and economic sanctions by the EU and the US, as well as the lifting of the ban on the delivery of any kind of weapons and materials for the development of ballistic missile programs by the UN Security Council.
Speaking of negotiations of the P5+1 group, which ended in Lausanne, Klimov said that their success would not take place without Russia.
"It would be impossible without Russia, as it is namely Russia which guarantees that Tehran will not be deceived," said the senator. Klimov said that it is the presence of such a negotiation partner as Russia that allowed Iran "to go until the end" in the difficult history of the negotiations on the nuclear issue.
Now all over the world, and not only in this matter, Iran relies on Russian diplomatic possibilities very seriously, and "the exact point interaction" between our countries can be noted at different levels, including parliamentary, said the deputy chairman of the International Committee of the Federation Council.
"The representatives of Iran have the highest degree of confidence namely to Russia, and when Moscow agrees on the Iranian issue with the European states and the United States, it differs from the West's position on Iran very much," said Klimov.
Edited by CN