INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Iran&& 's leading leaders lined up positions on issues around Iran&& 's nuclear programme at
talks in Tehran on Tuesday, Russia&& 's Foreign Ministry said.Lavrov went over a wide range of bilateral and regional issues with both
President Masoud Pezeshkian and his Iranian counterpart Seyed Abbas Araghchi, a ministry declaration stated.&& Positions were aligned on
the situation around the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian Nuclear Programmее,& & it said.Russia is a signatory
of the 2015 JCPOA offer along with the United States , China, France, Britain and Germany
The offer lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear activitiesLavrov had earlier said in Tehran that Moscow made sure
that diplomatic measures were still on the table when it concerned resolving problems around Iran&& 's nuclear programme.Rafael Grossi,
director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N
nuclear watchdog, said recently that Iran continued to enrich uranium well beyond the needs for business nuclear use despite U.N
pressure to stop it.Grossi told Reuters that while the rate of uranium enrichment had slowed somewhat given that the end of last year, Iran
was still improving at an elevated rate of around 7 kg of uranium per month to 60% purity.Iran rejects seeking nuclear weapons however no
other state has improved to that level without producing them.Grossi stated he wanted to go to Tehran next month for the first time in a
year.Russia and Iran have drawn better recently, with Iran supporting Russia in its military project in Ukraine
The 2 sides signed a tactical partnership arrangement in January.Lavrov discussed a wide variety of bilateral and local problems during his
check out, consisting of Syria, Lebanon and Afghanistan and the Israel-Palestine dispute, the Russian foreign ministry said.Russian news
firms reported that Lavrov later travelled on to Qatar.The post Russia&& 's Lavrov aligns positions with Iran on nuclear program first
