MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. The BRICS group is playing a key role in shaping a multipolar world order, and Tehran's relations with Moscow influenced the entry of the Islamic Republic into BRICS, Professor Mehdi Seif Tabrizi, an Iranian expert on Russia and the Caucasus, said in an interview with TASS.

"BRICS plays a key role in shaping a multipolar world and contributes to the establishment of a more just world order," the expert noted. According to him, all members of the intergovernmental group, both its founding countries and its newly joined member states, "support the construction of a multipolar world order and demand fair and equal participation of all countries in decision-making processes."

BRICS countries "actively participate in the work of the UN and other international organizations and contribute to global stability and security," Seif Tabrizi believes. He expressed confidence that BRICS "will help strengthen the stability of national currencies, military potential and the gross national product of all participating countries."

The political scientist noted that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called joining BRICS an important achievement of Tehran's foreign policy. According to him, "for Iran, which for many years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution lived under harsh US and Western sanctions and felt strategically alone, joining regional and international organizations becomes a window for strengthening its role in the region and strengthening its influence on world processes."

According to the political scientist, the approval of Iran's application to join BRICS was facilitated by "the closeness of the views of Tehran and Moscow on the transition to a multipolar world and the fight against the hegemony of the West, especially the United States." The strengthening of the Russian-Iranian partnership in the economic and defense spheres over the past two years, that is, after the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict, also played a role. Seif Tabrizi said both factors have created the ground for more active cooperation between the two countries in such formats as BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union.

Seif Tabrizi is convinced that Moscow and Tehran "will use their participation in BRICS to increase trade turnover." According to him, joining BRICS will contribute to the removal of "many mutual restrictive measures in trade and will make it easier for the participating countries to do business."

Iran, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia became full-fledged members of BRICS on January 1, joining original members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.