The reformist Masud Pezeshkiyan won the second round of the presidential elections in Iran and in his first address he said that he would "extend the hand of friendship to everyone".
As the state media reported this morning, Pezeshkiyan won with more than 16 million votes over the ultraconservative Said Jalili, who received the support of 13 million Iranians.
"We will extend the hand of friendship to everyone, we are all residents of this country, we should use everyone for the progress of the country," Pezeshkiyan said, thanking his supporters.
Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon, advocates for loosening hijab regulations and for rapprochement with the West, although he too has supported Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for decades.
The president-elect will succeed Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in the northwest of the country in May along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdolahian and several other officials.
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