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Kamal Kharrazi, the head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, emphasized the collective responsibility to assist the incoming Iranian administration in establishing active, respectful, and constructive foreign relations.

Iran’s recently-elected President Massoud Pezeshkian met on Friday evening with the family of the top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani who was martyred in Iraq in 2020.

People in the holy city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran have held a rally in solidary with the people of Gaza. 

Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is at the helm of choosing the cabinet members of President-Elect Massoud Pezeshkian’s administration, says the top goal of the new administration is to forge national unity in Iran.

Iran’s newly-elected President Massoud Pezeshkian, in his first appointment, has designated former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who had a central role in his electoral victory, as the head of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations for the transition period.

The office of Iran’s President-Elect Massoud Pezeshkian has issued a general plea asking civil institutions, scientific associations, as well as political parties with different affiliations to submit their proposed candidates as members of the incoming administration.

Masoud Pezeshkian will be sworn in as the 9th president of the Islamic Republic of Iran at a ceremony in the Parliament on July 30, a lawmaker has stated.

Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who had a pivotal role in gathering momentum for the newly-elected President Massoud Pezeshkian in his electoral campaigns, says the new cabinet members will be picked from among young experts.

A senior Iranian cleric and a member of the Guardian Council, that oversees elections and legislation, has dismissed an allegedly confidential letter attributed to him, claiming that the council is tasked with choosing a successor to the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei within months.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's Parliament Speaker, met with Masoud Pezeshkian, the President-elect, this Sunday afternoon to congratulate him on his victory in the fourteenth presidential election.

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei heaped praise on the administration of the late President Ebrahim Raisi as the government of hope and hard work.

Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and former minister of information and communications technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi had a phone conversation with a man who carried his 120-year-old father on his back to a polling station in southern Iran to vote for reformist candidate Massoud Pezeshkian.

Iran’s caretaker President Mohammad Mokhber met recently- elected President Massoud Pezeshkian on Sunday and felicitated him on winning the snap presidential election.

Iran’s reformist President-Elect Massoud Pezeshkian hosted his principlist rival Saeed Jalili in his office on Saturday evening, a day after they squared off in a presidential election runoff.

The Iranian parliament will hold meetings within two months to review the qualifications and vote of confidence for the proposed ministers of incoming President Massoud Pezeshkian, a member of the parliament’s Presiding Board said on Sunday.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has received Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian after his victory in Friday's runoff presidential election.

Iran’s president-elect Massoud Pezeshkian thanked the people who voted for him in the Friday election and said he intends to fulfill what he described as forgotten promises.

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei praised on Saturday the Iranian nation for holding a successful presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi.

Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi officially confirmed on Saturday the final results of the ‘safe and healthy’ presidential election runoff in the country where reformist Massoud Pezeshkian secured the majority of the votes.

Iranian President-Elect Massoud Pezeshkian, after winning the country’s snap presidential polls, stressed Saturday on the unity in the country and offered a hand of friendship to all groups and parties in the country.

Massoud Pezeshkian, the reformist candidate who won Iran’s presidential election in a close race on Friday to become the country’s 9th president, hails from the country’s West Azarbaijan province.

Reformist candidate Massoud Pezeshkian who ran for president in snap elections in Iran won the top executive office in a tight runoff race on Friday against principlist Saeed Jalili.

Iranians living in foreign countries are taking part in the second round of snap presidential election on Friday in 98 countries through 138 diplomatic missions, the Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary, and Iranian Expatriates Affairs at the Iranian Foreign Ministry said. 

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei cast his ballot in the presidential election run-off in the country on Friday. 

Voting kicks off for Iran presidential runoff election Polling stations opened across Iran at 08:00 am local time (04:30 GMT) on Friday for the second round of presidential snap elections in thecountry.