TEHRAN (Ruptly) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif welcomed a Russian delegation headed by Chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky for bilateral talks in Tehran on Sunday.

On Saturday evening, Slutsky also held talks with Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on the expansion of bilateral cooperation between Iran and Russia.

On July 21, Mohammad Javad Zarif met his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow to talk about solutions to conflict in the Middle East as well as cooperation between Russia, Iran and Syria.