"If the first transaction is successful, our businessmen when there is interest from the Russian side is ready to sell in Russia on 5 thousand tons of shrimp and 20 thousand tons of trout per year", - said the head of the Iranian fisheries organization Hassan Salehi. He added that Tehran and Moscow agreed on the issues of compliance with the Russian sanitary standards for products purchased in Iran.

According to him, the Russian market is attractive to Iranian suppliers of seafood. According to Iranian media, in addition to shrimp Iran sells Russian caviar and fish.

On Saturday the head of the Iranian-Russian chamber of Commerce Asadollah Asgaroladi has announced the first shipment of fish products to Russia.

Russia and Iran in recent years occupy similar positions on many issues of regional and international politics. With the introduction of sanctions against the Russian Federation has opened new prospects of economic cooperation between the two countries. Iran has expressed readiness to replace a number of goods that were previously imported from EU countries, but came under reciprocal restrictive measures of Russia.

In August 2014 signed a Memorandum of cooperation in the economic sphere, which is designed to strengthen trade and industrial ties between the two countries. According to the Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi industry, the two countries have sufficient capacity to reach a turnover of $70 billion