Russia welcomes the results of the Iranian presidential election, and expresses the certainty that Moscow-Tehran cooperation will continue in a positive and constructive fashion, Russia's special presidential representative for Afghanistan, director of the Foreign Ministry's second Asian department, Zamir Kabulov said on Monday.
"We are positive [about the presidential election in Iran], and are certain that our relations will keep developing constructively and steadily as before," TASS cited him as saying.
"We hope that the effects will be only positive, and then we will wait and see, what other parties to this agreement will do," Kabulov said in reply to a question.
The thirteenth presidential election in Iran's modern history ended Saturday night. A total of 28.9 million took part. Ebrahim Raisi received 17.9 million votes. The Interior Ministry said he was officially recognized the winner. Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message of congratulations to Raisi.
