A senior Iranian lawmaker on Wednesday said Iran and North Korea need to cooperate to reduce the impact of U.S. sanctions, during a meeting with the DPRK ambassador to Iran in the country’s capital.

According to a release issued by the Iranian parliament and translated by the Mehr News Agency, Iranian member of parliament Alaeddin Boroujerdi said there were many areas where the two countries could cooperate.

Boroujerdi also chairs the Iran-North Korea Parliamentary Friendship Group and was formerly the Chairman for the Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran. He also recently returned