Moscow
\nIran\u2019s president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian has described Russia as \u201ca valued strategic partner\u201d and pledged to further strengthen relations with Moscow.
\nPezeshkian, who will be inaugurated on July 30, set out his foreign policy priorities in an article entitled: \u2018My message to the new world\u2019, published by the Tehran Times on Friday.
\n\u201cRussia is a valued strategic ally and neighbor to Iran and my administration will remain committed to expanding and enhancing our cooperation,\u201d he wrote.
\nTehran will continue to \u201cprioritize\u201d relations with Russia both on a bilateral level and as part of international organizations such as BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and Eurasian Economic Union, the president-elect stressed.
\nPezeshkian said his government would also \u201cactively support\u201d efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
\n\u201cChina and Russia have consistently stood by us during challenging times. We deeply value this friendship,\u201d he added.
\nPezeshkian won the presidential election last week, beating his rival Saeed Jalili by 53.7% to 44.3% in the second round. The snap poll was called after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in May.
\nDuring his meeting with Iranian lawmakers at the tenth BRICS Parliamentary Forum in St Petersburg on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow and Tehran have been \u201cmaking considerable progress in their relations\u201d in recent years.
\nThe Russian leader predicted that under Pezeshkian bilateral ties \u201cwill develop at the same steady pace as they did under Mr Raisi, whose passing we all mourn.\u201d
\nIn his article, Pezeshkian said authorities in Tehran \u201clook forward to collaborating more extensively with Beijing as we advance towards a new global order.\u201d
\nOn Iran\u2019s relationship with Europe, he said it has \u201cknown its ups and downs\u201d. Among other things, European nations reneged on their commitments to salvage the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers after the US unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018, the president-elect noted.
\n\u201cDespite these missteps, I look forward to engaging in constructive dialogue with European countries to set our relations on the right path, based on principles of mutual respect and equal footing,\u201d the article said.
\nAs for ties with the US, Washington \u201cneeds to recognize the reality and understand, once and for all, that Iran does not \u2013 and will not \u2013 respond to pressure,\u201d Pezeshkian stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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