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Early presidential elections in Iran were held on 28 June and 5 July 2024 [1] following the death of incumbent president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on 19 May. [2]Four candidates contested the first round of the election, in which Masoud Pezeshkian won 44%, Saeed Jalili won 40%, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf won 14% and Mostafa Pourmohammadi won less than 1% of the vote.
Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian was sworn in on Tuesday, after winning an election earlier this month by promising to improve ties with the world and ease restrictions on social freedoms at ...
Masoud Pezeshkian [a] (born 29 September 1954) is an Iranian politician and physician who has been serving as the ninth president of Iran since 28 July 2024. [2]Pezeshkian served as governor of Piranshahr and Naghadeh counties and was elected to the Iranian parliament five times, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr electoral district.
Iran’s new president, Massoud Pezeshkian, traveled to the U.S. last week to present a moderate, rational face of the regime to the world. He claimed in a speech at the United Nations General ...
The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: رئیسجمهور ایران, romanized: Rais Jomhure Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second highest-ranking official, after the supreme leader. [3]
After Iran's June 28 presidential election saw the lowest turnout in history, Pezeshkian won 16.3 million votes against hard-liner Saeed Jalili 's 13.5 million votes to clinch Friday's runoff ...
July 5 – 2024 Iranian presidential election: Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins a second round run-off against ultra-conservative Saeed Jalili to become the 9th President of Iran. [ 48 ] July 7 – The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy destroyer IRIS Sahand sinks during repairs at a port in the Strait of Hormuz , injuring several sailors.
Women in Iran "still live in a system that relegates them to second-class citizens", according to the UN. An Iranian woman without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walks in a street in Tehran ...