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Iran’s president-elect to be sworn in on July 30
The ceremony will be held after the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has endorsed Pezeshkian’s presidential mandate in a separate ceremony.
A number of heads of state, foreign ministers, parliament speakers and representatives of different countries have been invited to the swearing-in ceremony.
Pezeshkian won the runoff vote against Conservative Saeed Jalili on Friday. The 69-year-old Reformist garnered around 54 percent of the 30 million votes cast.
The election was called early after the death of president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in May.
Raisi’s first Vice-President and the current interim president Mohammad Mokhber has called on the ministers to fully cooperate with the president-elect until he takes office.
Since his election as Iran’s 14th president, many messages of congratulation have been sent by the world’s leaders. Meanwhile, many leaders have called him to facilitate his victory and to express their readiness to continue their relations with Iran under the new government. Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yván Gil said in a bilingual post on his X social media account on Tuesday that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro had in a phone conversation congratulated Pezeshkian on his election victory.
Pezeshkian and Maduro affirmed their countries’ resolve to enhance their strategic partnership as they underscore close ties between Tehran and Caracas.
“Both presidents expressed their desire to continue cooperation in order to promote long-term strategic relations and pledged to hold a high-level meeting in the near future in a bid to proceed with joint cooperation and development plans,” Gil said in his post.
Pezeshkian also held a phone conversation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Iran’s president-elect told the Syrian president that his administration will spare no opportunity to further strengthen the strategic relationship with Damascus.
Pezeshkian said the Iran-Syria relations are built on a solid foundation, and that the development of cooperation is a strategic policy of the Islamic Republic.
“Our entire effort is to continue this strategy with strength and to further solidify the relationship between the two sides.”
Assad congratulated Pezeshkian on his win in the presidential election and wished him success in undertaking this significant national responsibility.
Pezeshkian also held separate phone calls with the leaders of Iran’s northern neighbors, namely Armenia and Azerbaijan – the two countries that recently reached an agreement to settle their territorial disputes which have caused several wars between the two countries.
Iran’s president-elect and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan agreed to hold talks in the near future.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev congratulated Pezeshkian on his victory in the elections and wished him a successful tenure.
During a phone conversation with Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Pezeshkian said that his government will focus its efforts on the implementation of the agreements reached between the two countries during a visit by Iran’s late president Raisi to Sri Lanka.
Back in April, Raisi took part in the opening ceremony of a mega multi-purpose project built by Iranian contractors in Sri Lanka.