Nuclear construction cooperation framework signed

The USSR completed its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, removing a major source of tension with Iran without ending Afghanistan’s internal war.

Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze met Khomeini in Tehran and conveyed Gorbachev’s reply, combining discussion of their differing worldviews with renewed bilateral contact.

Iran and the USSR signed a programme of economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation extending to 2000, including a framework for military-technical ties.

Shevardnadze arrived in Tehran for discussions with president-elect Rafsanjani and other Iranian leaders on bilateral ties, Afghanistan and the Iran–Iraq peace process.

The USSR formally dissolved. Iran’s relationship with Moscow entered a Russian phase, while newly independent Caucasian and Central Asian states altered its regional setting.

Tajik government and opposition delegations concluded a UN-sponsored ceasefire in Tehran. Its provisions addressed the neutrality of Russian troops and CIS peacekeepers.

Russian and Iranian nuclear organizations signed a contract to complete Bushehr’s first reactor unit. The project became a major channel of civilian nuclear cooperation; signing the contract did not...

The United States and Russia signed an aide-memoire restricting future Russian arms sales to Iran, showing Tehran the influence of US–Russian bargaining on its defence partnerships.

Tajik government and opposition representatives signed a protocol in Tehran on guarantees for implementing the peace agreement, advancing a settlement supported by Iran and Russia.

The Tajik government and opposition signed their General Agreement in Moscow, with the Russian and Iranian foreign ministers among those present, marking convergence in regional peace diplomacy.