Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili will travel to Moscow on Monday for talks with Russian officials, the foreign ministry said, amid increasing tensions in the nuclear crisis with the West.
"Mr Jalili will be travelling to Moscow tomorrow," foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters on Sunday. "He will meet with senior officials about strategic affairs."
His trip comes after talks on Friday between Jalili and the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to break the deadlock ended in failure. Solana said afterwards that he had been "disappointed" by the discussions.