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Ahmadinejad hopes for deepening relations with Russia after poll

Other News Materials 10 March 2008 00:01 (UTC +04:00)

( dpa ) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday congratulated Russia's President-elect Dmitry Medvedev on his landslide victory and hoped for deepening bilateral relations.

In a message to Medvedev carried by the official news agency IRNA, Ahmadinejad voiced confidence that under the "wise leadership" of the new Russian president, both countries would witness practical steps towards deepening mutual relations.

Although Moscow is cooperating with Tehran on a light-water reactor in the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, Russia voted last week in favour of a third United Nations Security Council resolution, including harsher financial sanctions, against the Islamic state.

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