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Delegations from 80 countries to partake in Pezeshkian’s swearing-in
High-ranking dignitaries from different countries have arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran to take part in Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony.
Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi said delegations from 80 countries, including 11 parliament speakers, four vice presidents, four prime ministers, and two presidents will take part in the ceremony.
Officials from Cuba, Columbia, Mongolia, Malta, Niger, Libya, Gambia, Sudan, Myanmar, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Madagascar had arrived in Tehran until Monday.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on state television and covered by over 600 reporters, photographers and cameramen from domestic and foreign media outlets.
Pezeshkian, Iran’s ninth president since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, formally began his four-year mandate on Sunday after the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei endorsed his victory in the second round of the presidential vote on July 5.
During the endorsement ceremony, Pezeshkian vowed to follow “the path of fairness and justice,” serve the people and address their problems, adding that these tasks would be “impossible without sticking to the law and unity.”
In a speech, Ayatollah Khamenei praised Pezeshkian as a “competent president,” saying, “We all have to help him and his government pull off great work.”
In a decree, giving his official approval for Pezeshkian, the Leader said the new Iranian president was a “wise, honest, popular, and scholarly” person.
Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old heart surgeon, garnered more than 16 million votes against ex-nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, who secured upwards of 13 million out of over 30 million votes cast, with the voter turnout standing at almost 50 percent.
The election was called early after Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi lost his life in a tragic helicopter crash
in May.