Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has met with Chairperson of Russia’s State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.

According to The Iran Project, the two top parliamentarians met on Thursday in St. Petersburg on the sidelines of the 10th Parliamentary Forum of BRICS member countries.

The Iranian speaker is heading a parliamentary delegation to the Russian city with the aim of using BRICS capacities for financial and trade interactions amid Western-imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic.