MOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will participate in the BRICS summit in Kazan, the country’s Ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali confirmed to TASS on the sidelines of the BRICS Media Summit.

"Mr. Pezeshkian, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, will take part in the summit in Kazan," he said when commenting on Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s words that Moscow expects the participation of the Iranian leader in the summit to be confirmed "through diplomatic channels."

The seventh BRICS Media Summit is underway in Moscow on September 13-17, with heads and leading specialists of over 60 media outlets from 45 countries participating in it. The summit is hosted by Russian state news agency TASS, which celebrated its 120th anniversary on September 1.

For the first time ever, the Media Summit is held as a new format of the BRICS Media Forum, a non-governmental non-commercial platform for dialogue among leading media of BRICS member states.

The BRICS Media Forum was founded in 2015 on Xinhua’s initiative and has since been organized annually by the country that holds the rotating BRICS presidency. Russia assumed the presidency on January 1, 2024. All BRICS events in Russia are organized by the Roscongress Foundation.