The Iranian Foreign Ministry named areas in which BRICS will play an important role

By Rhod Mackenzie

According to Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mehdi Safari, BRICS will have a significant impact on energy, new technologies, and aerospace.

The main challenges are energy production, transportation, and consumption. Safari stated that BRICS is addressing these three issues.

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic highlighted that BRICS, with the inclusion of India, Russia, and Iran, can play a significant role in various areas such as energy, technology, aerospace, transit corridors, presence in the waters of the Persian and Oman Gulfs and the Indian Ocean, global trade, and high technology.

During the BRICS summit in South Africa in August 2023, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the organization's members had decided to invite Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE to become full BRICS members. However, Argentina declined the invitation. The full participation of these new countries in the organization began on January 1, 2024. According to Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, a state seeking BRICS membership should refrain from imposing sanctions on other member countries.