"We make promises and we fail to fulfill them. This is the biggest problem we have,” Pezeshkian said in his first speech as Iran's new president.
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00:00Iran's president-elect Massoud Pazeshkian has given his first speech since winning Saturday's
00:07runoff election. Speaking to supporters in Tehran, he said,
00:11I didn't give you false promises, I didn't lie.
00:15Reformist Pazeshkian campaigned on a platform of reaching out to the West to improve relations
00:20and relaxing enforcement of the country's mandatory headscarf law.
00:24The election took place after previous president, the hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, was killed in
00:29a helicopter crash in northern Iran in May.