A high level Iranian delegation is to Iranian high officials had earlier said that any Russian proposal for uranium enrichment outside Iran would "not be acceptable." Sopolev praised the level of good relations between his country and Iran and indicated that the two countries were "cooperating together on issues related to regional conflicts and on combating international terrorism and the international drug trade." He stressed that the viewpoints of the two sides were identical with regard to the major issues and that the relations betweeen Iran and Russia have "withstood the test of time."