During a meeting with Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, said that the Russian delegation to the inauguration of Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran, on July 30 will be headed by Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the State Duma.
"Very recently, presidential elections have been held in your country. I would like to express my hope and I also have no doubt that the relations between Iran and the Russian Federation will develop as progressively as they did under Mr. [Ebrahim] Raisi, whose death we all regret and mourn," Vladimir Putin said.