President Rouhani's message is as follows:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Your Excellency Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto
Honorable President of the United Mexican States,
I sincerely congratulate your Excellency, the government and the people of Mexico on Independence Day of the country.
I hope we witness further development of ties between the two countries in all fields by mutual efforts of the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United Mexican States.
I pray to the Almighty for your Excellency’s health and success, as well as the Mexican nation’s prosperity and felicity.
Hassan Rouhani
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Mexico's Independence Day commemorates Sept. 16, 1810, when Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla urged Mexicans to rise up against the Spanish-born ruling class.
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