Foreign leaders accept invite to attend Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony
An Iranian lawmaker said five presidents and 10 parliament speakers have so far accepted invitation to attend President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony which is scheduled to be held on July 30.
Mojtaba Yousefi, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s presiding board, said on Monday that names of more foreign officials will certainly be added to the list of the guests in the coming days and before the ceremony.
He said that the ceremony will be held in the Parliament after the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has endorsed Pezeshkian’s presidential mandate in a separate 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 Iran’s northwest on May 19.