Russian allies Belarus and Iran agree to boost bilateral defense ties

Two governments, Belarus and Iranian leaders, including the defense of the key areas to increase binary ties on Wednesday signed new agreements, he said.

Presidents Alexander Lukashenko and Masoud Pesshkian signed a package of 13 documents in Minsk, the Capital of Belarus.

Both governments are under heavy sanctions by limiting potential trade partners. Pezshkian said Iran would help Belarus’ neutralizing such measures, and refer to Tens of years of experience that survives Western economic restrictions of Western.

Lukashenko told Pesshkian that Belarus is ready to cooperate with you from providing food to your country to military-technical cooperation ”.

The two sides did not explain more details about how countries want to cooperate in the defense sector. Other fields covered by the agreement include industry and tourism and joint initiatives in science, technology and education.

Access to Belarus’s wooden processing and chemical industry and potas fertilizers can bring potential benefits to Iran.

The two presidents also said that their country would start working towards a strategic partnership treaty.

Lukashenko, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, allowed Russia to use the Belarus region as a staging area for Ukraine’s full -scale invasion of Ukraine, and then allowed Russian tactical nuclear missiles to be deployed.

Iran provided drones to Russia to be used in the war, and Pesshkian signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Putin in January, although it did not contain a mutual defense substance.

The Iranian President’s visit to Minsk was postponed several times because of Iran’s strikes on his nuclear facilities. Lukashenko described strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure as “a serious threat to regional and international stability and security ..

“We support Iran’s legitimate right to peaceful nuclear energy development, Luk said Lukashenko.

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