TEHRAN- The chairman of the Iran-Russia parliamentary friendship group, Ebrahim Rezaei, has described the one-day trip of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Moscow as “important and effective,” saying the expansion of relations between Tehran and Moscow, both subjected to cruel sanctions, will help them use each other's capacity to neutralize sanctions. 

Rezaei, who accompanied President Raisi on his trip to Russia, shed more light on the Moscow trip, saying Russia and Iran are considered important in both states’ foreign policy agenda.

Pointing to Iran and Russia’s long history of cooperation, namely in fields such as security and counterterrorism, he noted that with the Raisi administration, cooperation with Russia has been expanded in fields such as trade, energy, regional and international issues. 

Stating that the trip to Moscow was mainly about talks over international issues and the Palestinian question, he said: "Both sides emphasized bringing a halt to the war in the Gaza Strip, and the opinions of both sides were very close to each other on this issue." 

He also added that both sides called on providing aid to the injured people in the Gaza Strip, helping the oppressed people of Palestine, opening the Rafah border, and bringing an end to the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.