Follow-up – Al Rashid
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that after the election results in Iran and after the statements of Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, there is hope for rapprochement between Tehran and all the Gulf states.
Lavrov explained during a Security Council meeting: “After the early elections in Iran and the first statements of Iranian President Pezeshkian, there is hope for rapprochement between all Gulf countries.”
He added: “There is hope for rapprochement in the interest of overcoming long-standing contradictions and mistrust, and in the interest of uniting forces on a generally accepted basis, in order to determine the standards of mutual security on their own without external interference.”
He stressed that this would also allow the countries of the region to work together on the Palestinian issue and build a structure of stability and good neighborliness.
Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian announced that he intends to urge Arab countries to use all means to achieve a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
It is noteworthy that Masoud Pezeshkian was elected President of Iran after the death of former President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on May 19.
Pezeshkian is scheduled to be officially sworn in late July.
