The time of the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected president of Iran, Massoud Pezeshkian, has been changed, Paralel.Az reports citing Iranian media.

Noted that the new head of state will take oath on July 28 and start his duties.

The ceremony will be attended by the Supreme religious leader of the country, Ayatollah Seyyid Ali Khamenei, high-ranking military personnel, as well as representatives of the embassies of various countries.

Pezeshkian received more than 16 million votes against former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili with more than 13 million out of over 30 million votes cast, electoral authorities said.

The runoff on Friday followed a June 28 ballot in a snap election to find a successor to President Ebrahim Raeisi who lost his life with his foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.