Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent a congratulatory telegram to Mojtaba Khamenei on his election as Supreme Leader of Iran. In the message, he expressed hope for the further development of Armenian-Iranian relations.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the thwarting of terrorist attacks against Jewish communities in Krasnoyarsk and Pyatigorsk.
Two individuals from a Central Asian country have been detained in Krasnoyarsk. According to the FSB, they were preparing to blow up a synagogue with a homemade explosive device.
In Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai, a Russian citizen has been detained on suspicion of plotting to arson a Jewish religious community building using Molotov cocktails.
A criminal case has been opened for preparing a terrorist attack. The FSB claims that the detainees declared their intention to protect the interests of Palestinians affected by the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as to provoke ethnic strife and mass unrest in Russia.