In an official message to newly elected German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who won the post with 931 yes votes of Germany’s Federal Assembly on Sunday, Secretary of Iran's SNSC (Supreme National Security Council) Ali Shamkhani congratulated the new German president for winning the parliamentary vote to the office.
“I sincerely felicitate your election as the president of the Federal Republic of Germany,” reads the opening of Shamkhani’s letter of congratulation. “I have good memories in my mind of talks with you during your visits to the Islamic Republic of Iran as the Foreign Minister of Germany.”
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