Iran to obtain full SCO membership in 2023: Iranian embassy.

July 13, 2022

According to Iranian Embassy After signing its first memorandum of obligations in Uzbekistan at this year’s Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit to be held in Samarkand in September, Iran’s accession to the full membership of the Euroasia-spanning organization will be finalized by April 2023.
Samarkand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan, where the 2022 annual summit of the SCO Heads of State Council is to be held on September 15-16.
Earlier, according to Russia that Iran is slated to join the SCO as a full-pledged member state this year and a memorandum of Iran’s obligations as a SCO member will also be signed in Samarkand.
Iran has also approached the SCO with a proposal to create a new single currency for carrying out trade among SCO members, in a push to counter the increasing weaponization of the US dollar-dominated global financial system.