Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian spiritual leader Ali Khamenei have started a meeting in Tehran, the Iranian news agency Tasnim reported on Twitter. It is being held at the residence of the leader of the Islamic republic. Prior to that, the Russian head of state spoke with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov called the conversation between the Russian leader and Khamenei very important. At a briefing ahead of the visit to Tehran, he noted that "this will be the fifth meeting between the president and the Supreme Leader [of Iran], and they have developed a dialogue of trust on the most topical issues of the bilateral and international agenda."
"The conversation between the president [of Russia] and the spiritual leader [of Iran] is, as a rule, of a conceptual nature; there is a completely free exchange of opinions with a broad coverage of all topical problems and an analysis of the general situation in the world," Ushakov said. "On most issues our positions are close or identical," he stressed.
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Based on materials from TASS