Saturday ,10 July 2021 (YJC) _ Iran’s new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi has invited India for his swearing-in ceremony on August 5.
Iran’s new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi has invited India for his swearing-in ceremony on August 5, sources have told The Indian Express.
Sources said that Raisi was “very warm” in his first meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who made a stopover in Tehran on Wednesday en route to Russia and was one of the first foreign dignitaries to call on the president-elect. Jaishankar also handed over a personal message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Raisi.
A decision will soon be taken about the participation — which government of India representative will go for the oath-taking ceremony in Tehran. “It will be an opportunity to build the ties, especially after the new regime comes into power,” a source said.
On Wednesday, Jaishankar had also held “useful” discussions on regional and global issues with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. It is learnt that the evolving situation in Afghanistan figured prominently in the talks and that the two ministers deliberated on the situation in the Gulf region and the prospect of the Vienna talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal and the Chabahar port project.