TEHRAN, February 25 (RIA Novosti) - Iran has set up headquarters to coordinate cooperation with Russia, Russia's nuclear chief said Saturday.

"We highly appraise this decision. It shows what importance Iran assigns to relations with Russia," Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power, said after talks with Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Davud Danesh-Jafari.

He added that the headquarters would include the Iranian foreign and defense ministers, the head of the National Security Council and the first deputy prime minister.