MOSCOW, Nov 9 Russia sees strategic engagement with Iran as an important element in ensuring our national security, said Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.
«We consider strategic cooperation with Tehran as an important element in ensuring national security,» he said on Wednesday in Tehran during a meeting with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi . Patrushev's words are quoted by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The Secretary of the Russian Security Council thanked Raisi for the cordial, warm welcome. Patrushev said that earlier on Wednesday he held constructive bilateral consultations on security in Tehran with Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.