“Any steps or any undertaking being undertaken to go round sanctions is one thing that we after all would discover deeply regarding,” he informed reporters on Wednesday.
“I don’t have an evaluation to make on this particular undertaking, however there’s a cause that we implement such a strict sanctions regime, and any efforts to go round these could be of immense concern to us,” the spokesman added.
Earlier, Iran and Russia signed an settlement on the development of the Rasht-Astara railway, a strategic transport hall that connects the present railways of the 2 nations and Azerbaijan.
Iranian transport minister Mehrdad Bazrpash and his Russian counterpart Vitaly Savelyev put their signatures on the deal price $1.6 billion throughout a ceremony in Tehran on Wednesday. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin oversaw the occasion in individual and by way of video-link.
The 162-kilometer railway will join the Iranian metropolis of Rasht, close to the Caspian Sea, to Astara on the border with Azerbaijan.
Addressing the ceremony, Raisi described the deal as “an essential and strategic step within the course of Iran-Russia cooperation,” including that it’ll assist increase commerce and economic system within the area.
“Iran and Russia are cooperating in numerous fields. Right this moment’s [railway construction] deal is without doubt one of the manifestations of cooperation not solely between the 2 nations, but in addition different states on the trail of the INSTC,” he mentioned.
The Russian president, for his half, mentioned the Rasht-Astara railway would assist join Russian ports on the Baltic Sea with Iranian ports within the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.
“The distinctive North-South transport artery, of which the Rasht-Astara railway will grow to be a component, will assist to considerably diversify world site visitors flows,” Putin added.
