In this message, the president of Syria congratulated the nation and the government of Iran on the election of Masoud Pezeshkian as the new president of Iran and wished him success and prosperity.
"We will work together to strengthen strategic relations between the two countries and open new promising horizons for cooperation between the two countries," Assad said.
"Resistance will be the common path that we will take to defend the dignity and interests of the nations of the two countries," he added.
Veteran parliamentarian Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran's runoff presidential vote, the interior ministry says, bringing a conclusion to a tight race that saw voters swell polling stations on Friday.
Pezeshkian received more than 16 million votes against former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili with more than 13 million out of over 30 million votes cast, electoral authorities said.
"By gaining a majority of the votes cast on Friday, Pezeshkian has become Iran's next president," the interior ministry said.
The runoff on Friday followed a June 28 ballot in a snap election to find a successor to President Ebrahim Raeisi who lost his life with his foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.
Pezeshkian originally ran against a field of five candidates last week, winning the largest number of votes but falling short of a majority which sent him and Jalili to a second round.
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