Iran, China Strengthening Strategic Partnership, Trust

Top-level Iranian delegates, who arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, held meetings with senior Chinese officials to discuss ways of strengthening their strategic partnership.  
In a meeting with China’s Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Li Zhanshu, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the purpose of the visit is to improve mutual cooperation and expressed Iran’s readiness to foster closer relations with China. 
“The two countries’ relations have always been friendly throughout history … [Iran and China] supported each other in different periods,” he was quoted as saying by IRNA.