Reformist formally takes over as Iran's president after supreme leader offers endorsement

Iranian supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, validated on Sunday, within a ceremony in Tehran, the election of the new president Massoud Pezeshkian, who won on July 5th the election held after the death of conservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter accident, according to international press agencies cited by Agerpres. The president-elect will take the oath on Tuesday before the parliament. Massoud Pezeshkian, 69 years old, is conside…

Reformist takes over as Iran's president following endorsement by supreme leader

Masoud Pezeshkian replaces the late Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May. The new president pledged to continue the country's Shiite theocracy, but could bend its foreign policy with the West, against the challenge of government hardliners

Reformist Formally Takes over as Iran's President after Supreme Leader Offers Endorsement

Reformist Formally Takes over as Iran's President after Supreme Leader Offers Endorsement

Iran's supreme leader formally endorsed Masoud Pezeshkian as the country's president on Sunday after winning elections this month. In a televised speech at the ceremony, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised Hamas's resistance in Gaza and called Israel “a bank of killers.”

Iran's supreme leader Khamenei formally endorses Pezeshkian as president

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave Sunday (Jul 28) his official endorsement of Masoud Pezeshkian as the Islamic Republic's ninth president, following snap elections won by the reformist camp's candidate. In a message read by the director of Khamenei's office, he said: "I endorse the vote (for) the wise, honest, popular and scholarly Mr Pezeshkian, and I am appointing him as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran". The new

Iran’s supreme leader formally approves new president

Ali Khamenei has issued a decree confirming Masoud Pezeshkian, formally recognizing him as Iran’s head of state