BEIJING — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will meet together with his counterpart Xi Jinping throughout his three-day journey in China beginning Tuesday, as the 2 U.S. rivals search additional cooperation.

China’s Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the announcement Sunday, saying Raisi’s go to was at Xi’s invitation.

Raisi will meet with Xi and their delegations will signal cooperation paperwork, based on Iran’s state information company IRNA. Assembly with Iranian and Chinese language enterprise leaders and Iranian expatriates in China can be a part of his itinerary, the report added.

Raisi’s go to is predicted to deepen ties between the 2 political and financial companions which are against the U.S.-led Western domination of worldwide affairs.

The 2 leaders met final September in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, when Xi underscored China’s assist for Iran.

In December, Raisi pledged to stay dedicated to deepening the strategic partnership throughout a gathering with Chinese language Vice Premier Hu Chunhua in Tehran.

China is a serious purchaser of Iranian oil and an necessary supply of funding within the Mideast nation. In 2021, Iran and China signed a 25-year strategic cooperation settlement that coated main financial actions from oil and mining to business, transportation and agriculture.

Each international locations have had tense relations with the US and have sought to mission themselves as a counterweight to American energy alongside Russia.

Washington has accused Iran of promoting a whole bunch of assault drones to Russia for its battle in Ukraine and has sanctioned executives of an Iranian drone producer. At that very same time, ties between Moscow and Beijing have grown stronger.

Iran on Saturday celebrated the forty fourth anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid nationwide anti-government protests and heightened tensions with the West.