Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to meet with the newly elected president of Iran Massoud Pezeshkian at the BRICS summit in Kazan in October and the Iranian side has an official invitation.
This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov in a comment for the newspaper "Izvestia".
„The Iranian side already has an invitation and we hope that the new president will come to the meeting. We will be happy to see him, and President Putin is preparing for the upcoming contact," the Kremlin spokesman said.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko told TASS earlier that Russia and Iran have completed the preparation of an agreement on a comprehensive strategic a partnership that should be signed soon.
In turn, the IRNA agency reported earlier that the new president of Iran, in a telephone conversation with the president of the Russian Federation, announced his readiness to sign this agreement in October at the summit of BRICS in Kazan.