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President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday expressed Iran’s support for Russia’s national sovereignty following the aborted mutiny by the paramilitary Wagner group.
The president held a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and discussed the Friday mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner group.
Raisi said Iran believes that the presence of extra-regional forces poses a threat to all regional countries.
The two presidents also exchanged views on the situation in the Caucasus, where tensions continue to simmer between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
“We follow the developments in the Caucasus region carefully and seriously and believe that the conflicts in Caucasus should be resolved with regional countries playing a role in it,” Raisi said.
Putin briefed Raisi on the recent armed mutiny in his country and said Moscow acted powerfully in dealing with the mutiny.
The Russian president also issues in the Caucasus should be settled through cooperation and coordination among the neighboring states of the region.
The Kremlin said the Iranian president expressed full support for the Russian leadership following with the June 24 events.
Muhammad Jamshidi, the Iranian president’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, said the Russian leader emphasized that the events in the wake of the Wagner mutiny had failed to challenge Russia’s national sovereignty.
On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian in a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov rejected any foreign interference in the domestic affairs of countries and said the events in Russia were of an “absolutely domestic nature.”
He said Iran supports the rule of law in all countries, including in the “neighboring and friendly country of Russia.”
In their Monday phone conversation, the Iranian and Russian presidents also discussed trade and economic relations and urged speedy implementation of the agreements already signed between the two countries.
Raisi and Putin said Tehran-Moscow cooperation on the North-South Corridor can serve as a successful example of cooperation between two countries which could be expanded in other sectors.
Iran, together with India and Russia, is pushing forward with the sea and rail corridor that could substantially reduce the time and cost of shipping goods from India to Europe.
The 7,200-km multimode route was proposed by the three countries in 2000. Later, the number of participants expanded to 14.
It envisages a network of ship, rail and road for freight transport that will cut carriage costs by about 30-60% and transit time from 40 days to about 20 days.
The goal of the project is to attract transit cargo traffic from India, Iran and the Persian Gulf through the Russian territory to Europe.
Now the project combines several different transport systems of individual states.
