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Atabak leads a delegation of executives to the 17th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mid-December 2024<\/strong>\u2014elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces and the Belarusian army take part in a week-long parachuting drill in southern Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 24, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>August 14, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Maj. Gen. Leanid Kasinski, ideology department head at the Belarusian defense ministry, meets in Minsk with Mojtaba Abdolmaleki, media department head at the Iranian General Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>August 7, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Iranian Air Force Commander Hamid Vahedi\u00a0meets with his Belarusian counterpart Andrej \u0141ukjanovi\u010d in Tehran. The Belarusian general also met with the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army, Abdolrahim Mousavi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 17, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Minsk accredits Iran\u2019s military attach\u00e9 to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Late April &#8211; early May 2024<\/strong>\u2014Belarusian military personnel takes part in Iran\u2019s Security Belt 2024 command and staff exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>April 27, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Belarusian Defense Minister Viktar Chenin meets with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Ashtiani in Astana, Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 19, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Seyed Ghalandari visits Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 9, 2023<\/strong>\u2014A Belarusian-Iranian defense commission holds its first meeting in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 17, 2023<\/strong>-Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber\u00a0meets with \u0141uka\u0161enka\u00a0in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>July 31, 2023<\/strong>-Defense Minister Chrenin visits Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 12-13, 2023<\/strong>-\u0141uka\u0161enka\u00a0visits Iran to sign a road map for comprehensive cooperation for 2023\u20132026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ha\u0142o\u016d\u010danka said in October 2023 that two-way trade tripled in 2022 and continued to increase in 2023. According to the former prime minister, growth was recorded in 2024. However, he did not give any specific figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 9, Pozirk. Railways moved more than 34,000 tons of freight between Belarus and Iran in the first quarter of 2025, a sixfold increase in five years, Belarusian Railway head Valery Viareni\u010d said during negotiations with his Iranian counterpart, Jabar-Ali Zakeri, yesterday in Minsk. 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