Government Congratulates Elected Iranian President Raeisi: "Expecting Friendly Relations"

Official Statement by the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The government congratulated Masoud Pezeshkian on his election as president of Iran and expressed hope that the friendly relations between Korea and Iran will further improve in the future.

Masoud Pezeshkian elected as the new president of Iran
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On the 6th, the government issued a statement through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson regarding the Iranian presidential election results, saying, "We hope that under the new government, Iran will constructively contribute to regional stability and move toward a path of prosperity and development."

Iran held a presidential by-election after the sudden death of former hardline conservative President Ebrahim Raisi, who took office in 2021, in a helicopter crash last May. Since no candidate secured a majority in the first round of voting on the 28th of last month, a runoff was held on the 5th, resulting in the moderate reformist candidate Pezeshkian being elected as the final winner.

Pezeshkian received approximately 16,384,000 votes (54.8%) of the valid votes in the runoff. The hardline conservative "Khamenei loyalist" candidate Saeed Jalili received about 13,538,000 votes (45.2%). This is the first time in 19 years, since 2005, that a president has been elected through a runoff in Iran.

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