According to the state-run [North] Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the country's Foreign Ministry said in a question-and-answer session the previous day that it "respects the rights and choice of the Iranian people to elect their supreme leader."
Mojtaba, widely regarded as a hard‑liner, is the son of Ali Khamenei, who ruled Iran with an iron fist for decades. Iranian clerics chose him despite prior warnings from the U.S. and Israel, a decision widely seen as a message that Iran will not yield to external pressure.
"We express serious concern over and strongly denounce the acts of aggression by the U.S. and Israel that are destroying the regional peace and security foundations and escalating instability worldwide by mounting illegal military attack on Iran," the ministry fumed.
"U.S. and its vassal forces are getting undisguised in their intervention into the internal affairs of Iran over the recent election of its new leader of the Islamic Revolution," it added, though it did not directly denounce U.S. President Donald Trump.
Since establishing diplomatic ties in 1973, North Korea and Iran are believed to have begun cooperating on missiles and other weapons technology in the 1980s, when Iran turned to Pyongyang for help developing its missile capabilities during its war with Iraq.
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