Iran’s Khamenei formally grants Pezeshkian presidential powers

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave Sunday his official endorsement of reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the Islamic republic’s ninth president, following snap elections that had concluded earlier this month.
In a message read by the director of Khamenei’s office, he said: “I endorse the vote (for) the wise, honest, popular and scholarly Mr.Pezeshkian, and I am appointing him as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The new president is due to be sworn in before parliament on Tuesday.