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Iran says will not forget friends of hard times

24 December 2019 16:52 (UTC +04:00)

Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Tuesday that Iran will never forget the friends of hard times, APA reports citing IRNA.

Mousavi said that Iran and Russia have record of friendship and they had ups and downs in their relations in different periods, especially in the past two centuries, the two countries have developed special relations, especially after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Mousavi said that Iran will not forget the friends of hard times.

"The ties have been built on proper grounds and we hope that they will serve the interests of both the people of Iran and Russia."

In the past several years, the leaders of the two countries have decided to pursue the historic ties to give them comprehensibility that led to bilateral, regional and international cooperation.

Iran and Russia have good cooperation and alignment in international community, he said.

"Russia has stood by Iran; despite the US and the West's pressures on Iran and despite the "Economic Terrorism" imposed on Iran, the Russian friends stood by Iran as much as possible.