Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has congratulated the nation and government of Mauritania on the successful holding of their presidential election, hoping for closer ties with the African nation under its new leader.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Mousavi also offered congratulations on the election of Mohamed Ould Ghazouani as Mauritania’s new president.
Mousavi finally expressed the hope that bilateral relations between Tehran and Nouakchott would grow further during the new president’s tenure.
Mauritania’s ruling party candidate Ghazouani won the election this week with 52 percent of the vote.
Ghazouani’s nearest rival, Biram Dah Abeid, came second with 18.58 percent.
Some 1.5 million people were eligible to vote on Saturday in Mauritania, a country of fewer than five million people covered largely by the Western Sahara Desert.
US President-elect Donald Trump does not consider the Ukraine war a key priority for America’s…
Three people have died in an air accident near the northern Iranian city of Rasht.
The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, says the plan to produce 20,000…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stressed the need for the United States to demonstrate that…
The chief ICC prosecutor has encouraged the rejection of Israel's objections to the arrest warrant…
The intelligence-signal destroyer Zagros has been officially inducted into the Naval Combat Fleet in a…