IRNA reports that chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major-General Mohammad Bagheri, yesterday met in Tehran with Tajikistan’s Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Emomali Sobirzoda, who arrived in Tehran on April 15 for an official visit at the head of a high-level military delegation.
In the course of the talks, Gen. Bagheri reportedly expressed expressed Iran’s readiness to increase cooperation with Tajikistan in the defense and military fields.
Congratulating and wishing success to Sobirzoda as Tajikistan’s new defense minister, Major-General Bagheri said that interaction and cooperation between the two armed forces are at their highest level and are constantly growing and developing.
General Bagheri emphasized the importance of improving relations between the two countries in various sectors, adding that cultural, historical, religious, and political commonalities can create a suitable platform for interaction between the armed forces of the two countries.
The Tajik minister, for his part, reportedly described the Iranian Armed Forces as powerful and efficient, underlining that Iran’s defense industry is very advanced in the region and the world.
On April 15, Emomali Sobirzoda met in Tehran with Iran’s Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh.
