A high-ranking delegation from the Hamas Movement at dawn Thursday arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran to attend the inauguration of president-elect Ibrahim Raisi.
“At the invitation of the Islamic Republic of Iran a high-level delegation from the leadership of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas led by Ismail Haneyya arrived [in Tehran] to participate in the inauguration ceremony of Iranian president Ibrahim Raisi” Hamas stated on its website.
Conservative judiciary head Ibrahim Raisi was elected Iran’s eighth president on June 19.
Iran’s interior ministry announced the results on that day saying that Raisi who was head of Iran’s judiciary won 61.95 percent of the vote on a voter turnout of 48.8 percent.
This was the lowest turnout for a presidential election since the 1979 revolution.
Before becoming chief justice in 2019 Raisi served as Iran’s prosecutor general (2014–2016) deputy chief justice (2004–2014) and prosecutor and deputy prosecutor of Tehran in the 1980s and 1990s.
