Araghchi arrives in St Petersburg on Monday, meet with Putin

The official IRNA news agency is reporting that the Iranian foreign minister has arrived in St Petersburg ahead of his talks with President Putin.

Araghchi’s flight carried the call-sign Minab 168, in memory of the children killed in a US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28.

 Russia and Iran have maintained communication since the start of the US-Israeli aggression against Tehran, with the two countries’ presidents and foreign ministers holding telephone conversations.

"Given bilateral relations between the two countries and the fact that Iran and Russia, as neighbors, see eye-to-eye on a number of regional and international issues, we have seen regular communication at the high and top levels," the diplomat noted.