TEHRAN – Mojtaba Hashemi Samareh, a senior advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has stated that the main purpose of the fourth round of the president’s provincial tours is to pursue the process of the implementation of the ratifications approved by the cabinet in the previous tours.

 In a recent interview with ISNA, Hashemi Samareh said that fortunately most of the ratifications made in the first and second round of provincial tours have been implemented, and only some approvals made during the third round of tours have not been implemented yet.