Jul 21. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday called on the country’s parliament to give its full support to the new administration of President-elect Masud Pezeshjian, amid the possibility of clashes between the ultra-conservative chamber and the reformist new president.
“At this point, there is a need for constructive cooperation between parliament and the new government,” Khamenei said, calling on the executive and legislative branches to speak “with one voice” on important issues, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Iran’s parliament has repeatedly stymied the country’s government’s efforts to reach out to the international community, including by refusing to make concessions in the now-suspended negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal or refusing to change the country’s banking laws as called for by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which is investigating Iran’s economic links to international terrorism.
Immediately after Khamenei’s request, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohamed Bagher Ghalibaf, has declared his absolute support for the new president of the country from the moment he formally assumes his office on July 30. “We wish him all possible success,” he said on his account on the social network X, “and we will do everything possible to help him.”
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