Vladimir Putin meets with Iranian President Pezeshkian to celebrate 'very close' relationship
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday, hailing the "very close" relationship between Russia and Iran.
"We are actively working together in the international arena, and our assessments of events taking place in the world are often very close," Putin said, as reported by Russia’s state news agency TASS.
The cooperation between the two sanctioned nations has sparked renewed alarm in the West. U.S. officials have said Tehran is supplying Moscow with ballistic missiles to use in its fight against Ukraine.
In return, Russia is suspected of providing Iran with sensitive nuclear technology – as it draws nearer in its capabilities to being a fully nuclear-armed state.
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