Iran's president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday attended the first gathering as president.

"I pledge to continue to be a listening ear for your words," Pezeshkian said in his first speech as president in front of a crowd of supporters.

Pezeshkian, the sole moderate in the original field of four candidates, won Friday's run-off presidential vote against former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. He will replace hardline President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May.

“He knows, we know, he's always going to play second fiddle to the Supreme Leader. But this is the big question, the million-dollar question: What does the rest of the regime, including Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards, think right now this country needs to do in terms of change, changes, domestic, foreign, to maintain political stability at a time where you have a 85-year-old Supreme Leader," said Alex Vatanka, director of the Black Sea Program at the Middle East Institute.

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