Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian elected Iran's president
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
He beat the hardline conservative candidate Saeed Jalili after securing 53.3% of the more than 30 million votes counted.
Also in the programme: The UK's new Prime Minister holds his first cabinet meeting; and Turkey's ruling party are working on a new bill aimed at getting stray dogs off the streets.
(Photo: Iranian presidential reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during an election campaign in Tehran. Credit: STR/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to New Zow from the BBC World Service coming live from London |
| 0:08.0 | this is Owen Bennett Jones and after a huge election win |
| 0:12.0 | the new Prime Minister of Britain has just held his first |
| 0:15.1 | cabinet meeting. It was the honor and privilege of my life to be invited by the |
| 0:20.9 | King, his majesty the king yesterday, to form a government and to form the |
| 0:26.0 | Labour government of 2024. |
| 0:29.4 | And now we hold our first cabinet meeting. |
| 0:31.8 | So I welcome you to it. We have a huge amount of work to do. So now |
| 0:36.7 | we get on with our work. |
| 0:39.4 | So there we have that Sakea Starma taking charge and he's just now doing a live press conference |
| 0:44.9 | we'll bring you more on that later in the program. |
| 0:48.3 | Now the tendency to reduce Iranian politics to hardliners and reformers may be overly simplistic but at the same time |
| 0:55.8 | it is at least a rough guide to some of what goes on and in the presidential |
| 1:00.3 | election that's just taken place there the reformer Masoud Pezeshkyan defeated the hardliner, |
| 1:06.6 | Saeed Jalili by 10 points, which gives rise to two questions. |
| 1:11.2 | What does Mr. Pezeshyan want to do and will the Iranian system allow |
| 1:16.5 | him to do it? Well all that lies ahead but for now videos posted on social media show his |
| 1:22.4 | supporters celebrating in Tehran and other cities. We're just going to go on. |
| 1:33.0 | Honestly speaking to bring down in front. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm going to |
| 1:36.0 | I'm going to get a point. |
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