In a meeting between President of the Iranian National Science Foundation (INSF) Nosratollah Zarqam and Chairman of the Board of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Panchenko Vladislav Yakovlevich in Tehran on Monday, the two sides finalized plans to implement 18 joint research projects during 2017-18, IRNA reported. Earlier in November at a specialized aviation conference in Kish Island Head of Iran’s National Space Center Manouchehr Manteqi had stressed that “Iran and Russia have good capacities for broadening cooperation in aerospace sciences; both countries should use this opportunity.”