Masoud Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old former heart surgeon, won Iran's presidential election.
He will emphasise on civil liberties, greater gender equality, and socio-economic development, as well as increased engagement with the international community.
Iran has been seeing high rates of inflation and unemployment, due to sanctions and worsened by years of mismanagement.
Iran has been under US economic and military sanctions since 1979.
In 2015, Iran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), popularly known as the “Iran nuclear deal”, with the P5+1 (the US, the UK, Russia, France, China and Germany) and the European Union.