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Iran said it will hold talks with its main Asian partners, Russia and China, on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on Tuesday, as Tehran looks for support following a 12-day conflict with Israel last month.
“We will have bilateral meetings with the Chinese foreign minister, which naturally has its own importance in the current situation, as well as with the Russian foreign minister,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Telegram.
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a 10-nation Eurasian security and political grouping whose members include China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Iran. Tianjin in northern China is hosting the 25th SCO Foreign Ministers meeting.
In June, Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities which they said were part of a nuclear program geared toward weaponization. Tehran denies having any such plans.
Since the re-imposition of American sanctions on Iran during US President Donald Trump’s first term, Tehran has deepened ties with both Moscow through a 20-year strategic pact and Beijing, which buys as much as 90 percent of Iranian oil exports.
“The SCO is gradually opening up its place in the global arena, meaning it is gradually going beyond the regional arena, and it has many different issues on its agenda, including in the economic, political and security fields," Araghchi wrote.
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