Tehran, Sept. 11 -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian departed Tehran for New Delhi on Friday to attend the BRICS Summit, he will also hold a bilateral with PM Modi later in the day.

Speaking ahead of his departure the Iranian President said. "The goal of BRICS is to confront unilateralism, and the slogan of the current summit is also within this framework, and we hope to get closer to this goal day by day. Of course, we know that economic issues are complex and we need new approaches to reduce totalitarianism and unilateralism in the world."

According to ISNA, before traveling to India the Iranian President referring to the importance of the BRICS summit said, "Independence, solidarity, sustainability, resistance, and innovation are ...