Pezeshkian to be sworn in as Iran president on July 30, 2024 - July 10, 2024
- Core Insights Advisory Services
- Jul 9, 2024
- 2 min read
July 10, 2024
"Tehran, IRNA – The swearing-in ceremony of the Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian is slated for July 30.
The news was announced by Mojtaba Yousefi, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s presiding board, on Wednesday. Along with senior Iranian officials who will attend the ceremony, some foreign guests from various world countries are to participate in the important event, the member of the parliament told IRNA.
Based on the planning, the ceremony will be held after the Supreme Leader formally approves the president. Pezeshkian, 69, was elected as the ninth president of Iran after the votes of the July 5 presidential runoff counted. Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon, won 16,384,403 votes while Jalili stood behind him with 13,538,179 ballots."
Iran has taken a turn that hardly anyone could have seen coming a few short months ago. For years, Iran’s reformist faction has languished in the political wilderness, banished there by hard-liners more aligned with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and by a disillusioned electorate convinced that its votes did not matter. Few imagined this year that the reformists were about to make a comeback and elect a president for the first time since 2001. Yet on July 5, this is precisely what happened.
"Masud Pezeshkian, a physician and longtime member of Parliament, defeated the ultra-hard-liner Saeed Jalili in a runoff with 54.8 percent of the vote. Turnout was extraordinarily low in the first round and only somewhat higher in the second, according to the official numbers—meaning that Pezeshkian will become president with a smaller share of eligible voters than any other president in the history of the Islamic Republic. For many of those who did come out, the main motivation was not love for Pezeshkian, but fear of his rival.
In effect, Iranian citizens sent two negative messages this election week: Those who didn’t vote demonstrated their rejection of the regime and its uninspiring choices. Those who did vote said no to Jalili, who represented the hard core of the regime and its extremist agenda."
