Iranian President to Attend BRICS Summit in Russia

Tehran has confirmed that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will attend an upcoming summit of the BRICS group of nations, which Iran officially joined earlier this year. “Mr. Pezeshkian … will take part in the summit in Kazan,” Kazem Jalali, Tehran’s envoy to Moscow, told Russia’s TASS news agency on Sept. 15. The summit will be held from Oct. 22 to 24 in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan region. Pezeshkian, who took office last month after winning July elections, will meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the summit, according to Jalali. A 10-nation economic bloc, BRICS was founded in 2006 to counter perceived economic dominance by the West. Its original members included Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS)....