Iran’s Khamenei formally grants Masoud Pezeshkian presidential powers
‘I am appointing Pezeshkian as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran’
Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, left, sits next to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. File
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his official endorsement to reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the Islamic republic's ninth president on July 28, following elections earlier this month.
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In a message read by the director of Mr. 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 president is due to be sworn in before parliament on Tuesday.
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