TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran and Moscow are intensifying efforts to destroy terrorism in the region based on their increasingly strategic relations and cooperation, a prominent Russian analyst said as Russia's special envoy and deputy foreign minister arrived in Iran on Wednesday.

"There is no doubt that the relations between Iran and Russia are strategic. This type of ties is naturally long-term and even permanent and pursue multi-dimensional and complicated goals," Alexnader Paranjiov, a professor at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, told FNA on Wednesday.

"One of these complicated goals is suppression and destruction of major terrorist groups and bringing peace and order back to Syria," he added.

Noting that Iran and Russia's second target is settlement of the regional differences and helping the establishment of peace and stability in the region, Paranjiov said that another important goal pursued by both countries is maintaining their national security.

In relevant remarks on August 22, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi also underlined the strategic ties between Tehran and Moscow, and said both countries share the same views over war on ISIL and terrorism in the region.

"Relations between Iran and Russia are strategic," Qassemi told reporters in a press conference in Tehran.

"Iran and Russia enjoy similar views over campaign against the ISIL and terrorism in the region and security is important to us and we don�t spare any efforts to maintain the country's security," he added.

Referring to the Russian fighter jets' use of an airbase in Western Iran for anti-terrorism flights in Syria, Qassemi said, "Russia's presence in Iran was temporary and was a result of coordination, and they neither have any base nor been deployed in Iran."

Russia's Ministry of Defense confirmed earlier this month that it had deployed Tu-22M3 bombers and Su-34 strike fighters in Iran and these have already carried out airstrikes against terrorists in Syria.

"On August 16, 2016, Tu-23M3 long-range bombers and Su-34 bombers, having taken off from their base in Hamadan [Islamic Republic of Iran], carried out group airstrikes against targets belonging to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Jabhat al-Nusra (Fatah al-Sham) terrorist groups in the provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzur and Idlib," the ministry said in a statement.

Strategic long-range Tu-22M3 bombers have already delivered airstrikes in Syria against ISIL from the airfield.

Hours later, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani indirectly confirmed deployment of Tu-22M3 bombers and Su-34 strike fighters in Western Iran to be used for airstrikes against terrorists in Syria.

"Cooperation between Tehran and Moscow to fight against terrorism in Syria is strategic and we exchange our capacities and possibilities in this regard," Shamkhani said when asked by Iran's state-run news agency about Russian media reports on the deployment of the country's fighter jets on the Iranian soil.

"The conditions have grown difficult for the terrorists due to the constructive and extensive cooperation among Iran, Russia, Syria and the resistance front and this trend will continue with new and massive operations until their full annihilation," he added.

Shamkhani underlined that Tehran, without any expectations, is playing a military advisory role in countries which are fighting against terrorism.

By Fars News Agency