📅 26 December 2000
Russian defence minister Igor Sergeyev arrived in Tehran for talks on expanding military ties, the first visit of its kind since Iran’s 1979 revolution.
📅 2 October 2001
Defence ministers Ali Shamkhani and Sergei Ivanov signed an agreement in Moscow on Russian weapons sales to Iran, formalizing renewed military cooperation.
📅 9 November 2022
Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev met Ali Shamkhani and President Raisi in Tehran, discussing security and wider cooperation between the two countries.
