Sanaei: Rouhani considering boosting ties with Russia

Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei said that the country's President Hassan Rouhani has massive plans for the expansion of relations with Russia during his second-term in office.

"The Iranian president has different comprehensive plans for the expansion of relations between Tehran and Moscow," the envoy said, addressing Iran-Russia Cultural-Social Conference in Russia's Ufa.

Sanaei pointed to abundance of achievements in the two countries’ relations in different fields, adding that "all infrastructures and conditions for the expansion of all-out relations between Iran and Russia were formed".

He reiterated that President Rouhani in his second-term in office will make more efforts to further expand mutual cooperation between the two countries.