Ebrahim Raisi sworn in as Iran’s eighth president
2021-08-06 09:02:45 source:The Aljazeera
August 5, 2021
Tehran, Iran – Ebrahim Raisi has been sworn in as Iran’s eighth president.
At the ceremony in the country’s parliament in Tehran on Thursday, Raisi, with a hand on a Quran, read the inauguration oath before adding that he will make Iran stronger and engage with the world.
The 60-year-old Raisi, who is a frontrunner to replace the 82-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Iranians want him to maintain the country’s independence and resist foreign bullying.
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