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Tehran, Iran – 30 July 2024
1. Foreign officials entering Iranian parliament chamber
2. Enrique Mora, chief of staff for high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy talking with Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran’s acting foreign minister
3. Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president entering chamber
4. Officials and foreign guests
5. Pezeshkian and others
6. Pezeshkian taking the presidential oath
7. Wide of parliament chamber
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president:
"No one around the world accepts that the head of a regime that’s fighting and bombing women and children in Gaza is cheered and supported."
9. Lawmakers chanting, UPSOUND (Farsi) "Death to Israel"
10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president:
"We are seeking a world where the proud people of Palestine are freed from the claws of occupation, oppression, imprisonment and genocide."
11. Lawmakers chanting, UPSOUND (Farsi) "Hail Palestine"
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president:
"We are ready to talk and manage the tensions with governments that haven’t yet realized Iran’s position and dignity. I consider the normalization of economic and commercial ties with the outside world Iran’s unalienable right, and will not stop trying to remove the oppressive sanctions."
13. Wide of ceremony
14.SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president:
"We have been and will be committed to our commitments. But pressure and excessive demands will not work on Iran’s leadership, people and political system. Iranian people should be talked to with a language of respect."
15. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ supreme leader and lawmakers making victory signs
16. Wide of chamber
STORYLINE:
Iran swore in the country’s new president on Tuesday, with the reformist politician and heart surgeon Masoud Pezeshkian pledging that his administration will keep trying to remove economic sanctions imposed by the West over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.
Pezeshkian delivered a speech after taking his oath in a ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, Iran’s capital.
He said he considers the normalization of economic relations with the world to be Iran’s inalienable right.
"I will not stop trying to remove the oppressive sanctions,” he said
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday officially endorsed Pezeshkian, urging him to prioritize neighbors, African and Asian nations as well as countries that have “supported and helped” Iran in Tehran’s foreign relations policies.
Pezeshkian, a longtime lawmaker, won the July presidential election after his predecessor Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a May helicopter crash that sparked the early election.
He has two weeks to form his Cabinet for a vote of confidence in parliament.
The sanctions have hit Iran’s vital oil exports, blocked transactions on international banking networks and spurred inflation, which is running at about 40%.
The dollar is being traded for 584,000 Iranian rials, a dramatic plunge for the country’s currency.
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