During their Wednesday meeting, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian and the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Resistance Movement conferred on the latest regional developments.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian will travel to Moscow on Monday for talks on the Middle East developments.
Iran and Russia have renewed their calls for a negotiated settlement to the crises in Syria and Yemen saying UN Charter and international norms shall be considered as a solution, official sources said.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov arrived in Tehran on Tuesday to hold talks with Iranian officials on regional developments, Al-Alam News Network reports.
The Syrian government will attend the next round of peace talks with the opposition, set to begin on February 10 in Geneva, according to Russia's top foreign official.
Russian officials told visiting US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Friday that Moscow would continue backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's campaign against militants despite peace talks due later this month.
Syrian President Bashar Assad will not attend a peace conference in Geneva in January dedicated to ending the nearly three-year-long Syrian crisis, a senior Russian diplomat says.
Russia regards Iran as its main partner in resolving regional developments, in particular the current turmoil in Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov says.
Bomb attacks in Syria's capital Damascus and the country's south have killed at least 16 people, a day after Moscow and Washington failed to announce a date for proposed peace talks.
Iran's deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs is scheduled to visit Moscow to discuss the latest developments in Syria with Russian officials.
Russia and US have agreed to meet at The Hague on August 28 to discuss ways to end the ongoing crisis in Syria.
Russia currently has no military personnel at its resupply facility in the Syrian port of Tartus, a senior Russia diplomat says.