New Parliament convenes in Tehran days after helicopter crash killing President

Tehran: A new Parliament convened in Iran’s capital Tehran for the first time on Monday, days after a deadly helicopter crash that killed the country’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

The State radio reported that lawmakers in the Islamic Consultative Assembly



opened the first session of the legislative period with a recitation from the Quran.

A new Parliamentary speaker is set to be elected in the coming days. Incumbent Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is running for re-election against religious hardliner Mojtaba Zonnour and former Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.