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“The domestic political agenda of Iran will undergo certain changes following Iran’s presidential elections,” Vardan Voskanyan, Yerevan-based expert in Iranian studies, noted at a press conference on Monday.

In the expert’s words, although Iran’s Hassan Rouhani evidently won more votes in the last presidential election than during the previous elections, the Iranian citizens have growing expectations in regard to ensuring certain liberalization processes inside the country and achieving success in the economy sphere.

“The administration of president Rouhani successfully managed to implement almost all the points of the country’s foreign policy agenda in the past years. Iran has reached a nuclear agreement and increased its influence over almost all the countries of the Middle East. However its citizens still have expectations regarding the domestic policy,” the expert said.

Touching upon Iran’s foreign policy, Mr. Voskanyan said that it will not undergo significant changes.

“The Iranians have strengthened their position in the foreign world taking into account a number of important factors related to the elections, the most important of which are the high voter turnout, the highly competitive atmosphere and the absence of any post-election processes, since Iran’s relevant bodies had ensured free and transparent elections. In fact, the Iranian voters did not have any complaints over vote rigging. In this sense Rouhani will be in stronger positions during his second term of precedency, further strengthening Iran’s negotiating positions,” he noted.

According to the expert in the Iranian studies, this is a highly significant factor amid the new level of developments in the Middle East. Iran will be in far stronger positions.

In his words, it is not accidental that on the very day of Iran’s election U.S. president paid a visit to Saudi Arabia, one of Iran’s enemy states.

Vardan Voskanyan also noted that Iran will continue its involvement in Syria and Lebanon  processes and will maintain influential leverages in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen, continuing to ensure serious presence in Afghanistan developments.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivered address at the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh on May 21 and called for a "coalition of nations" in the Middle East to come together with the aim of "stamping out extremism."

In his speech, during the second day of his visit to Saudi Arabia, President Trump also accused Iran of fueling "the fires of sectarian conflict and terror" and called for its international isolation.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to Twitter to respond to President Donald Trump's anti-Tehran remarks, suggesting those were aimed at "milking" Saudi Arabia.

"Iran — fresh from real elections — attacked by @POTUS in that bastion of democracy & moderation. Foreign Policy or simply milking KSA of $480B?" Zarif tweeted on Sunday.

The Iranian foreign minister was referring to a recent arms deal between the US and Saudi Arabia worth almost $110 billion immediately, and set to reach to $350 billion over 10 years, plus a series of other deals.
It is noteworthy that Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev rushed to Saudi Arabia to participate at the Arab-Islamic-US summit “Together, we are stronger,” right after congratulating Iranian president Hasan Rouhani on his reelection in Iranian presidential elections”

Azerbaijani state-run media are quite stingy with providing details about Aliyev’s visit to Saudi Arabia, while the Iranian media outlets describe Aliyev’s participation in the summit as an act against Islamic resistance forces.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday denounced a violent clash in Washington last week involving Turkish security personnel and protesters, as the administration faced political pressure to respond.

In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Tillerson said the State Department had called in the ambassador of Turkey to discuss the incident and saying, "that this is simply unacceptable."

"There is an ongoing investigation," he said. "We'll wait and see what the outcome of that investigation is. But we have expressed our dismay at what occurred at the Turkish Embassy."

On May 17, a demonstration staged to protest Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s official visit to the United States turned bloody when a pro-Erdogan group attacked demonstrators at Sheridan Circle near the residence of the Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. Nine people were hurt and two arrests were made during an altercation.

Sen. John McCain has called for the Turkish ambassador to be expelled. The incident occurred last Tuesday during protests surrounding a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.