Rouhani in Moscow

[zestokryl]

Russian company recently started constructing second Busher power plant reactor ....

 

[Tokhme khar]

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

"our cooperation is capable of bringing peace and ensuring order in a vast area, stretching from the Mediterranean to Pakistan."

eK, What? Isn't it interesting we are mentioned in this? What does it mean?

 

[Tokhme khar]

Syria/ Afghan/ Yemen end game discussion and planning and throwing out the terrorist hillbilly from the region.

"our cooperation is capable of bringing peace and ensuring order in a vast area, stretching from the Mediterranean to Pakistan."

eK, What? Isn't it interesting we are mentioned in this? What does it mean?

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

Syria/ Afghan/ Yemen end game discussion and planning and throwing out the terrorist hillbilly from the region.

Yo...Why Pakistan is mentioned in this, still unable to get you? I get about Syria, Yemen as you are involved in those regions...

 

[OldTwilight]

Having said that, Iran didn't enter Syria in full capacity.

This was almost our full capacity .... we don't have air-force ,modern armored vehicle s, attack Helicopters , solder with modern weaponry and https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/rouhani-in-moscow.485882/page-3 our economy can't endure this kind of thing etc ...

we just have less than 10 UCAV with limited capability and brave Bassij/Sepahi/Arteshi ....

don't fool yourselves ....

Russian company recently started constructing second Busher power plant reactor ....

it will become operational in 2030 ... because you are the constructor of it ...

خطری که نادیده گرفتن قانون اساسی در بر داره ، بالاتر از خطر قدرت گرفتن النصره و داعش و امثالهم در عراق و سوریه هست..

اگر این رویه ی غلط باب بشه فردا روز یک عده میان به بهانه ی مصلحت ، جزایر سه گانه را به اعراب می دهند و به راحتی اصل حفظ تمامیت ارضی کشور رو نادیده می گیرند ...

اینقدر کوته بین نباشید ...

 

[MTN1917]

There is no difference, you are just fooling your selves. The sprite of article is clear about that we should not allow any foreign military to use our soil at any costs, even if it is for peaceful purposes. Do you think The meaning of this article is that we shouldn't let foreign powers to build military bases in Iran, we should give them pre-built bases? Giving Russians military bases is really dangerous and is last thing one in his right mind should do in Iran. If this government wants to to this, this is clearly a treason and Hassan Rohani and anyone who is involved in this must be hanged for treason.

Spirit of article?!

You can clearly see that text states:"establishing of foreign military bases is forbidden even for peaceful purposes"

This part of constitution was clearly drafted to not repeat the experience of another "capitulation law", in which foreign forces were given immunity from Iranian law.

We are not giving them anything, the base belongs to IRIAF, it is manned and protected by IRIAF , Russians only land to refuel and rearm, they have no control of the base, it is a temporary and not a permanent station.

Can't you get the difference? Or maybe you don't want to.

I am sure if it was the Americans, we wouldn't be hearing complaints.

Also these Russian aircrafts are supporting our own troops in Syria.

 

[Tokhme khar]

Afghan territory is being used to destabilize pak/ Iran and Central Asia. Putin/ Xi, Khamenei want to put an end to this.

Yo...Why Pakistan is mentioned in this, still unable to get you? I get about Syria, Yemen as you are involved in those regions...

Now more developments:

Growing Iran-Russia Ties Developing Into Strategic Relations - Rouhani
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The interaction between Russia and Iran continues to develop in the spheres of economy, trade, tourism and is likely to grow into strategic relations, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday.

© Sputnik/ Alexey Nikolsky
Russia-Iran Cooperation Not Directed Against Third Countries - Rouhani
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Rouhani noted that all the earlier joint projects in the spheres of energy, industry and trade were being implemented which signaled that the countries cooperated on a new level, having moved toward the realization of large-scale long-term projects.
"The relations between our two countries demonstrate the development of our bilateral ties over the past year in the context of economy and the trade and tourism growth. The decisions which have been made in the latest months show that we are moving toward the multifaceted development and strategic relations," Rouhani said following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Rouhani is paying an official visit to Russia on March 27-28 at the invitation of the Russian president.

 

[zestokryl]

According to the link, initial reactor test run is set for october of 2024 :

http://www.atominfo.ru/newso/v0162.htm

 

[Tokhme khar]

Rouhani should speak to President Putin about the Su-30SM drama. Iran needs 250+ of these ASAP. IRIAF is dead without them. More developments on basing Tu-22M3's at Hamadan AB:

Russia can use Iran bases for anti-terror battle in Syria: Zarif
Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:24AM

In this August 16, 2016 frame grab provided by Russian Defense Ministry press service, a Tu-22M3 jet flies over Syria’s Aleppo during an airstrike against terrorists. (Via AP)


Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran could, if necessary, allow Russia to use its military bases on “a case by case basis” for missions against terrorists in Syria.

“Russia doesn’t have a military base (in Iran), we have good cooperation, and on a case by case basis, when it is necessary for Russians fighting terrorism to use Iranian facilities, we will make a decision,” Reuters quoted Zarif as saying in Moscow on Tuesday.

The top Iranian diplomat, who is accompanying President Hassan Rouhani on his two-day visit to Moscow, further said that regional issues, including the crisis in Syria, would be discussed at the upcoming meeting in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Last August, Russia announced that its planes had used a base in western Iran to carry out counter-terrorism air raids in Syria.

“On 16 August [2016], Tu-22M3 long-range bombers and Su-34 frontline bombers, flying with a full bomb load from the Hamedan air base, conducted a group airstrike against targets of” Daesh and Jabhat Fath al-Sham terrorist groups in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Dayr al-Zawr and Idlib, a Russian Defense Ministry statement said back then.

Just days later, Moscow confirmed that all warplanes based in Iran had returned to Russia.

At that time, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said that as long as Iran agreed, Russia could use the air base again “depending on the situation” in Syria.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said at the time that Russian airstrikes on militants in Syria were “temporary, based on a Russian request.”

Last month, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani stressed that Russia continues to use Iran’s airspace as part of a strategic cooperation between the two countries.

Read more:

• 'Syria-bound Russian jets using Iran airspace'
  
  
• Russia has no military base in Iran: Larijani
  

Iran and Russia have been assisting the Syrian government in its fight against foreign-backed terrorist groups wreaking havoc in the Arab country since 2011.

Moscow launched its campaign against Daesh and other terror outfits in Syria at the Damascus government’s request in September 2015. Its airstrikes have helped Syrian forces advance against militant groups fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad's government.

 

[Muhammed45]

"our cooperation is capable of bringing peace and ensuring order in a vast area, stretching from the Mediterranean to Pakistan."

eK, What? Isn't it interesting we are mentioned in this? What does it mean?

ISIS mercenaries will threaten Pakistan too, and we don't want to see second Syrian scenario in Pakistan.
Easy to understand

 

[Tokhme khar]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visits the Kremlin for a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on March 28, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin
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Alliance with Syria tightens Russia’s ties with Iran
Continuing cooperation on Syria was high on the agenda of a meeting between Putin and Rouhani, but other agreements were made as well
By Sergei Blagov March 29, 2017 4:54 PM (UTC+8)
As Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Moscow this week, the two sides pledged to develop cooperation on Syria, as well as bilateral economic ties. Putin hailed the trilateral Russian-Iranian-Turkish axis on Syria.

Russia’s and Iran’s participation in talks on Syria in the Kazakh capital Astana in February alongside Turkey as the guarantor of the ceasefire was a major contribution to a political settlement in Syria, Putin said. Moscow’s and Tehran’s joint efforts were instrumental in sustaining the ceasefire, he told Rouhani.

Russia and Iran remain allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but both have refrained from confrontational rhetoric against Assad’s opponents. Bilateral cooperation between Russia and Iran has “never been and will never be against any third country,” Rouhani said ahead of his visit to Moscow on March 27-28.

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However, earlier this month cooperation between Moscow and Tehran in Syria was complicated by a diplomatic exchange between Russia and Israel. On March 16, Israeli jets hit targets in Syria associated with Iran’s ally Hezbollah, and Assad’s forces launched air-defense missiles.

Shortly afterward, the Israeli ambassador to Moscow was summoned by the Russian government over the incident. Therefore, Moscow’s partnership with the Islamic Republic, Assad and Hezbollah started adversely affecting Russia’s relationship with Israel.

Ahead of the talks between Putin and Rouhani, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced that Russia would be able to use Iranian military bases for air strikes in Syria on a “case-by-case basis.” Russia used Hamadan Airbase in Iran to launch attacks last year against militants in Syria. Iranian officials have argued that the Russian presence at the Hamadan base was temporary.

Incidentally, Iran this month tested an advanced S-300 air-defense system supplied by Russia. The S-300 is capable of tracking and taking out multiple targets at a range of up to 200 kilometers. Russia and Iran signed an US$800 million contract to supply the S-300 system in 2007, but Russia suspended the delivery in 2010 after strong opposition from the US and Israel. The delivery was completed after the lifting of sanctions against Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal.

Despite Western concerns, Moscow has long insisted it would sell weapons to any country that had not violated international regulations, including Iran. It has been reported that Tehran was interested in acquiring air-defense missiles, ground-to-ground missiles, fighter jets and armored infantry vehicles. It is also reportedly keen to buy anti-ship missile systems in order to control crucial sea routes in the Persian Gulf.

Rouhani’s trip to Moscow this week had an economic dimension as well. He and Putin agreed to continue cooperation in limiting oil output with the aim of stabilizing the global crude-oil market.

Russia and Iran clinched 14 deals, mainly memoranda of understanding, including memorandums of understanding on oil and gas cooperation, as well as transportation of nuclear materials, railways, trade, and electricity. The MOUs on gas cooperation was signed by Russia’s Gazprom and the National Iranian Oil Company.

Putin noted Russian loans totaling €2.2 billion (US$2.38 billion) to finance Iran’s thermopower and railway projects. He also mentioned the stable operation of the first block of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. Russia’s leader and Rouhani also discussed the construction of the second and third blocks of the plant.

Signed in January 1995, the US$1 billion Bushehr contract involved Russia’s supply of one VVER-1000 reactor, training of Iranian specialists and delivering nuclear fuel for the reactor.

In recent years, Iranian officials have suggested that Russia could become a partner in projects to build up to 20 nuclear power stations in Iran with a total capacity of 20,000 megawatts. However, these statements have been slow to materialize.

Moscow and Tehran also discussed matters of regional concern. Putin and Rouhani advocated an agreement on the division of the Caspian Sea among the littoral states ahead of the fifth Caspian summit, due in Astana later this year. Therefore, although cooperation on Syria appeared to remain a priority in ties between Russia and Iran, there were numerous other matters of important bilateral concern.

 

[Nevsky]

More info about the nuclear agreement:

Iran, Russia agree to build 2 nuclear power plants

Iran and Russia have signed an agreement to build two new nuclear power plants in Iran’s southern city of Bushehr, President Hassan Rouhani announced yesterday.

The deal was made during Rouhani’s official two-day visit to Russia to meet his counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

“We have signed an agreement with Moscow to build two new units at the Bushehr nuclear plant,” Rouhani was quoted as saying by Russian state media.

Iranian vice president and head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation, Ali Akbar Salehi, announced last year that his country plans to build two new nuclear units at the Bushehr nuclear plant, south of the country, in cooperation with Russia.
At the time, Salehi pointed out that the construction process would take 10 years, at a cost of $10 billion.

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Russia to finance railway wagon manufacture in Iran

TEHRAN, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Industrial Development and Renovation Organization of Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russia's Transmashholding to build railway wagons in Iran, Tehran Times daily reported on Tuesday.

The agreement was signed in Moscow on Monday, the report said.

According to the MoU, Russia will finance the wagon manufacturing in Iran.

Both sides will cooperate in manufacturing passenger and cargo wagons, the report said.

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I am absolutely sure, that the cooperation and the deals in the military sector will come, it's a matter of time.
Btw, I dont know if you guys have any alternatives to websites such as Google or social networking, but I think that there is a huge potenital for cooperation in this sphere, between Russian companies like Yandex and Mail.ru and their iranian counterparts...
We should strengthen the cooperation in the culture sector, there is a lot to be seen in Iran and Russia, huge potential in tourism especially with the visa free travel.

Here is a good article about Iran - Russia cultural ties, actually I have read that Ali Khamenei is a fan of russian literature.

Iran, Russia's cultural ties go much deeper than you think


Some pictures to end with:

 

[AmirPatriot]

Iran, Russia agree to build 2 nuclear power plants

Bit of a misleading title. They are building two new reactors at the same Bushehr site, which currently has 1 reactor.

 

[Arminkh]

This was almost our full capacity .... we don't have air-force ,modern armored vehicle s, attack Helicopters , solder with modern weaponry and https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/rouhani-in-moscow.485882/page-3 our economy can't endure this kind of thing etc ...

we just have less than 10 UCAV with limited capability and brave Bassij/Sepahi/Arteshi ....

don't fool yourselves ....

Do you read what you write? "We just have 10 UCAV with limited capability and brave troops"? Seriously, is that all?

We don't have the largest arsenal of ballistic missiles in the region? Don't we have 500 or something T72s? Don't we have the same Su 24 that Russia used in Syria? Don't we have Su 25 ground attack aircraft? Don't we have artillery? How many aircrafts in total do you think Russia operates in Syria? How many tanks do you think there is in Syrian army's current arsenal? I bet Iran could easily match those and more.

Iran has been supplying both Iraq and Syria with armament for the past 5 years. It could as well send its own troops there that would make a much better use of those armaments.

I know you have a very negative view about current status but what you have just mentioned above is detached from reality.