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Masoud Pezeshkian

Masoud Pezeshkian is the president-elect of the Islamic Republic of Iran, elected following the death of his predecessor, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash. 

Pezeshkian is considered a reformist and has been a politician for decades. He is set to be inaugurated on July 30.

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 Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian attends a press conference in Tehran, Iran, September 16, 2024.

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 Masoud Pezeshkian President of Iran addresses the "Summit of the Future" in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 23, 2024.

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 Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian attends a press conference in Tehran, Iran, September 16, 2024.

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 Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a gathering with his supporters at the shrine of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in south of Tehran, Iran July 6, 2024.

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 Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, attend an endorsement ceremony in Tehran, Iran, July 28, 2024.

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 IRAN’S SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with President Masoud Pezeshkian and his cabinet in Tehran, this week.

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 IRANIAN ATOMIC Energy Organization chief Mohammad Eslami (right) and IAEA head Rafael Grossi shake hands after a joint news conference in Isfahan, Iran, in May.

IAEA chief says he hopes to improve Iran nuke status with new president Pezeshkian

 THEN-IRANIAN foreign minister Javad Zarif meets with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Tehran, in 2020. Human rights in Iran are a victim of negotiations on the nuclear file and trade between the EU and Iran, says the writer

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An Iranian woman walks past an anti-Israel banner with a picture of Iranian missiles on a street in Tehran, Iran April 19, 2024.

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 MASOUD PEZESHKIAN, Iran’s newly elected president, attends a Muharram mourning ceremony in Tehran, on July 12.

Iran's parliament approves Pezeshkian's unity cabinet

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 Late Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh's eldest son Abdussalam Haniyeh (L) mourns as he attends funeral ceremony, held for Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran, Iran on August 1, 2024.

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 Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attend a Muharram mourning ceremony in Tehran, Iran July 12, 2024.

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 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Murmansk Region Governor Andrei Chibis at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia August 6, 2024.

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 Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian meets with Russian Security Council's Secretary Sergei Shoigu in Tehran, Iran August 5, 2024

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