Sputnik News- Iran and Russia need to intensify anti-terrorism cooperation to fight growing extremism, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said ahead of a bilateral meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.





MOSCOW (Sputnik)���Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his counterparts from�Syria and Iran, Walid Muallem and Mohammad Javad Zarif, will hold trilateral talks on�joint efforts at�resolving the Syrian crisis in�Moscow on�Friday.
"Growing extremist activities in�our region call for�the necessity to�intensify cooperation between�our countries, which are truly fighting terrorists and not supporting them," Zarif said.


The three sides will consider joint steps to�minimize the negative consequences of�the "gross violation of�international law" as�well as�the threat to�international and regional peace and security that the US strike amounted to, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Friday's talks will also go beyond�the pressing diplomatic issues and will deal with�trilateral relations at�a deeper level.

On Tuesday, chairman of�the Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky said that a permanent parliamentary trilateral committee composed of�Russian, Syrian and Iranian lawmakers may be established in�the near�future, with�the decision expected to�be made after�the trilateral talks on�April 14.