Sputnik News- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is meeting his Iranian colleague Mohammad Javad Zarif on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, a Sputnik correspondent reported Friday.

Lavrov arrived at�the summit venue in�the Kazakh capital of�Astana and immediately made way to�a room where the Iranian delegation was expecting him.

A source in�the Iranian delegation told Sputnik earlier that the "possibility of�this meeting" was "being worked out."