A top adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has arrived in Moscow to hold talks with senior Russian officials, Press TV reported.

Ali-Akbar Velayati, the adviser to the Leader on international affairs, arrived in Moscow on Monday morning.

The visit comes at the invitation of Director of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov.

Ahead of his departure for Moscow, Velayati said that the four-day visit is in line with the "accomplishment of the strategic policies” of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution.

The senior Iranian official paid a visit to Moscow in January, 2015 as a special envoy for Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, during which he submitted the Iranian president’s message to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Source: MENA