Iran Invited to CSTO Drills in Belarus
TEHRAN – Iran has been invited as an observer county to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) exercises in Belarus, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov said on Monday.
“Representatives of states that are not CSTO members — Saudi Arabia, Iran, China and Mongolia — are invited as observers to the CSTO drills in Belarus,” Colonel General Sidorov said. CSTO is an intergovernmental military coalition which comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.