Moscow-Sana
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Ibrahim Raisi on his victory in the Iranian presidential elections that took place yesterday.
Russia Today website quoted the press attache at the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Maxim Soslov, as saying today: that Putin expressed, in a congratulatory letter delivered to Raisi, his hope for the continuation of the development of constructive bilateral cooperation between Russia and Iran in various fields, in addition to dealing with international issues to serve the interests of both countries. .
The head of Iran's presidential election commission, Jamal Araf, announced earlier today that preliminary results indicated that candidate Ibrahim Raisi had obtained 17 million and 800,000 votes to lead the presidential elections by a wide margin over the rest of his competitors.
