MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. Russia’s and Iran’s capabilities can both complement each other and serve regional interests, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday during a meeting with visiting speaker of the Russian State Duma, or lower parliament house, Vyacheslav Volodin.
According to Raisi, Russia and Iran have "diverse opportunities" in the spheres of trade, energy, transit and shipments and bilateral cooperation in these spheres can be intensified.
"The two countries’ capabilities can supplement each other and their use can ensure not only the interests of both countries but also serve regional interests," the Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying.
The Russian State Duma’s press service said earlier in the day that Volodin and Raisi had discussed the development of relations between Moscow and Tehran.
Volodin is leading a Russian parliamentary delegation which arrived in Tehran on an official visit on Sunday. The Russian delegation includes deputy speaker Sergey Neverov, who is in charge of the house’s relations with the Iranian parliament, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) and chair of the Duma’s international committee Leonid Slutsky, chair of the Duma’s committee on the financial market Anatoly Aksakov, chair of the defense and corruption committee Vasily Piskarev, and chair of the transport committee Yevgeny Moskvichev.