Pars Today
The volume of trade exchanges between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member states in the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2023) reached $4.2 billion.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has called for the expansion of cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran in the face of Western pressure and sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met and held talks with his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Aleinik on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in South Africa.
An additional 2,000 troops will be sent to the Poland-Belarus border amid a recent influx of illegal immigrants, Polish Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Wasik said.
NATO member states in northeastern Europe have bolstered their military forces on their mutual borders with neighboring Belarus.
The defense chiefs of Iran and Belarus have signed a memorandum of understanding to improve cooperation in the defense sector.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group is no longer in his country but in the Russian city of St. Petersburg.
Israel has banned its military forces from traveling to Russia and Belarus, following an armed mutiny by the paramilitary Wagner Group against Moscow and in the midst of soaring tensions between Tel Aviv and Russia.
Russia says a criminal case previously filed against the head of Wagner paramilitary group has been dropped, after Yevgeny Prigozhin ordered his forces to stop fighting and retreat to their bases.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has declared receipt of the first shipment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons deployed to the country as a deterrent, but vowed to use them if attacked.