Russian National Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev went on Monday for talks with Iranian officials on the country's nuclear programme. His agenda includes meetings with his Iranian counterpart Saeed Jalili and other officials, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during a two-day stay.
Moscow intends to revive nuclear negotiations between Iran and major world powers known as the P5+1, the five UN Security Council permanent members plus Germany under a new "step-by-step" approach.
As a follow-up to Patrushev's visit, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi is to travel to Moscow this week to continue negotiations with Russia. Tehran has been hit by four rounds of UN sanctions over its programme of uranium enrichment, which Western powers suspect has a military dimension, despite Tehran's repeated denials. The United States and European Union have also imposed their own unilateral sanctions on Iranian banks, posing risks for foreign companies which deal with them.
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