Hamid Nouri says next president should continue path of Martyr Raeisi

Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian judiciary official who was recently released from prison in Sweden, has said that the next Iranian president should continue the path of martyr president Ebrahim Raeisi. 

Speaking to reporters after he cast his ballot along with his family in Tehran, Nouri called for mass participation of people in the voting.

“I urge the people to participate in the vote and disappoint Iran’s adversaries like before,” he said.

He said the last time he voted was in 2021 when he was in solitary confinement in Sweden. There, he cast his ballot for Raeisi.

Nouri, who earlier this month returned to Tehran after spending five years in Swedish prisons, told reporters that he didn’t think he would be released, but it finally happened, thanks to God and the steadfastness of Iranian officials.

He said his release was a demonstration of Iran’s “might and grandeur” before the entire world.