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Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian has given his first speech after winning Sunday’s runoff election. “In this election, I didn’t give you false promises. I did not lie,” Pezeshkian said. “It’s been many years after the revolution that we come to the podium, we make promises and we fail to fulfill them. This is the biggest problem we have.” Pezeshkian beat hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic. He’s promised no radical changes to Iran’s …

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