Pezeshkian stresses need to relocate Iranian capital

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has informed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, about the need to relocate the capital from Tehran closer to the Persian Gulf coast.

The Iranian president said that he had raised the proposal with the supreme leader last year. He admitted it had received a lot of criticism, but argued that the accumulating resource crises were so deep that Iran now had an obligation to shift the capital, and no choice but to do so.

"I also told the leader of the revolution that we must shift the capital toward the Persian Gulf. Nowadays, we don’t have an alternative anymore. We are compelled to do so, if things remain the same, we will face difficulties," Pezeshkian said.