Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei received President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Monday. Mr. Putin is in Tehran to participate in GECF (Gas Exporting Countries Forum). The Leader also criticized the US for lacking ‘rigor and honor’ in its policies toward the Middle East, and believed that the US plans and general policies on Syrian crisis had contributed to more violence and only strengthened the terrorist positions.
“The US long-term plan for the region is damaging all countries’ interests, especially those of Russia and Iran, and only close cooperation would neutralize those plots,” said the Leader in his 2-hour meeting with Putin, when Ayatollah Khamenei praised Mr. Putin as ‘an outstanding political figure of today’ in international community; on nuclear issue, the Leader voiced the mistrust to the US officials, “now the nuclear issue has come to a decisive result we watch the US behavior with open eyes.”
