amir abdullahyan. after some time, mr.n went to work in the irish iranian parliament, majlis, where he was in charge of foreign policy, external relations of the iranian parliament, and we also actively collaborated with him regarding the development and deepening of russian-iranian interparliamentary ties during this period. i visited tekiran several times chairman of the state duma of the russian federation. volodin. in 2016, valendina ivanovna matvienko came to tehran. and we want to say again that we worked very actively and fruitfully with mr. amir abdullahyan to prepare these significant visits. well, i want to say that during the conversation with him it was very pleasant to see that this interlocutor, the minister of foreign affairs. he is not only an experienced professional, an excellent connoisseur of the arabic language, arab countries, but he was also an active friend of our country in... we have lost him truly a great friend of our country, we will miss him very much, thank you, thank you very much for these

accompanied by the very skillful political maneuvering of his foreign minister, the late hussein amir abdullahyan, which in a way managed to break the seed in which iran was placed by the american zionist alliance. what was very helpful for president raisi was that in february 2022 we had the start of the conflict in ukraine between russia and nato, the total sanction regime which western governments imposed on the russian government were a golden opportunity for the government of president raisi to break the west sie and new and very important alliance will be constructed in this time between russia and iran. in a way, iran became the gateway of many russian products into asia. the alliances that president raisi was very smart to build during his presidency with countries like india, china in particular, and of course russia. and here we have to also mention the very successful normalization of relations which iran made with saudi arabia and other gulf arab countries with the intervention of china of course open so many opportunities for iran to develop its economy and we have to remember someth