Referring to an assassination attempt made against him last month in Lebanon, Rostam Ghasemi said that “if I was afraid of assassination, I would not have worked on the front lines for the Axis of Resistance for 7 years”, referring to Iran’s alliance with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Assad in Syria and the Houthis in Yemen. Ghasemi emphasised that knowledge of the world outside of Iran was important for a President, and therefore he was appropriately experienced.