TEHRAN - Iranian Vice President Sorena Sattari has said that Iran may sign an agreement with Russia on buying at least two types of military aircraft.

“Intensive talks in that sphere are in progress now but they are conducted by our defense ministries, which in fact should make all the comments on them,” he said in an interview with the Moscow-based Kommersant Daily published on Friday.

“The only thing I can say is we might sign a contract for two types of jets. The talks on the issue are making good progress,” he added.

Commenting on the talks on supply of S-300 antiaircraft missile launchers to Iran, he said he did not know details of the agreement, since these negotiations lay in the sphere of responsibility of the defense ministries.

“Talks with the Russian side on the S-300 missiles are proceeding in due course but I didn’t discuss the issue with any of the Russian officials at my meetings here,” Sattari said.

The theme of cooperation in defense-related technologies with Russia makes the Iranians feel somewhat nostalgic, he said.

“The closest ties in the defense sphere, and especially in aviation, started emerging between our countries slightly more than 20 years ago,” Sattari said. “My father was the commander of the Iranian Air Force then. We managed to make first purchases of Russian jets then after the end of the war (with Iraq TASS) and our Air Force that had been operating Western aircraft previously changed over successfully to the jets of eastern manufacture, the MIG-29’s and the Su-24’s.”

“It was also then that we obtained the S-200 complexes,” he added.

“Somewhat later, we launched the manufacturing of technologies and weaponry at home.”

“Today we make the missiles and even missile systems resembling the S-300 but they are based on our Iranian technologies,” he said.

Sattari was in Moscow to attend the MAKS’2015 international aerospace show.