The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with lawmakers on Sunday played a joke on President-Elect Masoud Pezeshkian and wished success for the new administration.

According to The Iran Project, in this meeting which was held on the occasion of the start of the 12th round of the Iranian Parliament, the Leader pointed to the participation of the President-Elect Masoud Pezeshkian, who was a parliamentarian before being elected as president, and played a friendly joke on him by saying “I do not know whether the participation of the president-elect [Pezeshkian] in this meeting is legal or not?”