In a speech, the emcee of the congress called Ebrahim Raisi’s wife “the first lady of Iran” and said without her efforts, this congress would not have been possible at all.It was expected that the first ladies of the closest friends of the Islamic Republic, namely Russia, China, and Syria, or at least several ministers or parliamentarians of these countries would attend the congress, Rouydad 24 pointed out, but apparently the foreign ministry was not successful even with Iran’s close allies.