"We will extend the hand of friendship to everyone." These are the first words of the newly elected Iranian president Massoud Pezeshkian, after his victory in the runoff over the candidate of the fundamentalist Jalili party. For him over 12.7 million votes, against 10.4 for his opponent.
Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old heart surgeon and former Minister of Health, thus revives the hopes of Iranian reformists after years of conservative and ultra-conservative rule.
«The Iranian people with their vote in the presidential elections have foiled enemy plots», the comment of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the presidential vote, which became necessary after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter accident.
The new leader of Tehran received congratulations from Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
«I express my most sincere congratulations to the people and government of Iran on the occasion of the election of the new President of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the hope that we can work towards the pursuit of peace and stability especially in the Gulf of Aden and in general in the Middle East », declared the Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Edmondo Cirielli.
(Unioneonline)
