Bahrain King felicitates Pezeshkian over election victory
King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa felicitated Masoud Pezeshkian upon his election win.
MEHR: King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa felicitated Masoud Pezeshkian upon his election win.
In a post on X social media platform on Saturday, he said that Bahrain seeks to establish outstanding relations with Iran based on cooperation and strengthen strong relations with it in a way that benefits both countries and the two nations.
Pezeshkian received more than 16 million votes against former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili with more than 13 million out of over 30 million votes cast, electoral authorities said.
"By gaining a majority of the votes cast on Friday, Pezeshkian has become Iran's next president," the interior ministry said.
The runoff on Friday followed a June 28 ballot in a snap election to find a successor to President Ebrahim Raeisi who lost his life with his foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.
Pezeshkian originally ran against a field of five candidates last week, winning the largest number of votes but falling short of a majority which sent him and Jalili to a second round.
