Iranian President to Attend BRICS Summit in Russia

The announcement follows mounting tensions with the West over alleged Iranian arms shipments to Russia.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Ali Akbar Ahmadian, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, as he meets with BRICS high-ranking officials responsible for security matters / national security advisers in Saint Petersburg on Sept. 12, 2024. Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Tehran has confirmed that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will attend an upcoming summit of the BRICS group of nations, which Iran officially joined earlier this year.

“Mr. Pezeshkian ... will take part in the summit in Kazan,” Kazem Jalali, Tehran’s envoy to Moscow, told Russia’s TASS news agency on Sept. 15.