President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran later this month, the Kremlin said Friday.

President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran later this month, the Kremlin said Friday.

Putin -- who last visited Iran in 2007 -- will head to Tehran for a forum of gas-exporting countries on November 23 and is expected to hold talks with the Iranian leadership, the Kremlin's top foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said.

"We are preparing to take part in the third Gas Exporting Countries Forum on November 23 in Tehran, and Russia will evidently participate on the highest level, our president will go there," Ushakov told reporters.

He added that bilateral meetings could take place on the sidelines of the forum, both with Iranian authorities and with other countries represented at the summit.