Riyadh 0
22 June 2021

Commenting on Ebrahim Raisi’s election as Iran’s president, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister remarked that “foreign policy in Iran is in any case run by the supreme leader and therefore we base our interactions and our approach to Iran on the reality on the ground, and that is what we will judge the new government on, regardless of who is in charge”.

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