Heart surgeon Masoud Pezeshkian takes over from his predecessor Ebrahim Raisi, whose death in a May helicopter crash sparked the early election.
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00:00The new president of Iran was sworn in at a ceremony in the Iranian parliament in Tehran.
00:07Massoud Pazeshkian took the oath after being formally endorsed by the Iranian Supreme Leader
00:11on Sunday.
00:13He takes over from his predecessor whose death in a May helicopter crash sparked the early
00:19election.
00:20Pazeshkian pledged that his administration will keep trying to remove economic sanctions
00:25imposed by the West over Tehran's controversial nuclear program.