“Relations between the two countries have changed to a strategic level of cooperation, and China wants to further strengthen ties with Iran,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was quoted as saying by his Iranian counterpart Mohamed Javad Zarif. to say.
“Our relationship with Iran does not affect the current situation, but it is a permanent and strategic one,” Wang said at the signing ceremony.
“Iran with a free solution to reach its relations with other friendly countries, some countries such as Iran is not in a position to call takeefan looga change,” he said.
Wang met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran ahead of the deal, which is expected to include Chinese investment in key sectors such as energy and infrastructure.
Rouhani praised Beijing’s support for the 2015 nuclear deal with the world’s major powers, and called on the world to deliver anti-retroviral vaccine to Iran as the only country in the Middle East to do so. severely affected by the epidemic.
“Cooperation between the two countries is crucial for the implementation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the fulfillment of its obligations to European countries,” Rouhani said in a statement on his official website.
“When it comes to the coronavirus vaccine, it is necessary to increase cooperation between the two countries, and we want to import more vaccines from China.”
US President Joe Biden has tried to revive Iran talks on a nuclear deal left by former President Donald Trump in 2018, although tough economic measures are still in place and Tehran wants to oust them before before the talks resume.
Under the new administration, the United States wants to reconsider its policy and go back to the nuclear deal, and China welcomes their move, “Wang said.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Said Khatibzadeh said the agreement was a “map” of trade, economic and transport cooperation, with “a special focus on specific issues of mutual interest.”
China, a country with the largest trade ties with Iran and a longtime ally, agreed in 2016 to increase bilateral trade more than 10 times to $ 600 billion over a decade.
The Ministry of Commerce said Thursday that Beijing will try to uphold the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and defend the legitimate interests of Sino-Iranian relations.
The United States and other Western powers involved in the nuclear deal with Tehran are at odds over which group should first return to the deal, which was ousted by former US President Donald Trump in 2018.