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Masoud Pezeshkian

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Role	Head of government: President Masoud PEZESHKIAN (since 30 July 2024)
Country	Iran
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Archived items	64
As of	2026-08-23

Masoud Pezeshkian as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

Situation as of 2026-08-23

Most recent archived item: Pezeshkian says Iran ‘has not become Venezuela’ despite war and sanctions - reported by Al Jazeera

Most recent archived item: Al Jazeera

This page lists 12 archived headlines published between 2026-02-27 and 2026-08-23. It reflects what these feeds reported in that window, not everything that happened.

Biography

Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

Biography

Masoud Pezeshkian (born 29 September 1954) is an Iranian politician and heart surgeon who has served as the ninth president of Iran since 2024. A member of the reformist faction, he is the oldest person to serve in this position, taking office at the age of 69. Born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, to an Iranian Azerbaijani and Iranian Kurdish family, Pezeshkian graduated from the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences with a degree in medicine and served as a doctor for Iranian soldiers in the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988). Pezeshkian served as governor of Piranshahr and Naghadeh counties and his political career began in 1997 when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He served as Minister of Health and Medical Education from 2001 to 2005. He was later elected to the parliament five times, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr electoral district, from 2008 to 2024. During this time, Pezeshkian was also First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament from 2016 to 2020. Prior to the 2024 presidential election, he enrolled himself in two previous elections, the 2013 election, in which he withdrew, and the 2021 election, in which he was rejected from running. [1]

Early Life

Masoud Pezeshkian was born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, on 29 September 1954. His parents, Mohammadali Pezeshkian and Mahboubeh Soudbakhsh, were both from Urmia and had moved to Mahabad for employment before his birth. He spoke both Azeri and Kurdish fluently and was often reported to be of mixed Azeri-Kurdish parentage, although he considered himself and both of his parents as full Turks. In 1973, he received his diploma and moved to Zabol to serve his conscription duty. It was during this time that he became interested in medicine. After completing his service, he returned to his home province, where he entered Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and graduated with a degree in medicine. During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), Pezeshkian frequently visited the front lines, where he was responsible for sending medical teams and working as a fighter and doctor. He finished his general practitioner course in 1985, and started teaching physiology at the medical college. [2]

Career

In 1997, Pezeshkian's political career began when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He was the Iranian health minister from 2001 to 2005. In 2003, while health minister, Pezeshkiyan faced an impeachment vote by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, surviving with 170 votes for him, 60 votes against, and 5 abstentions. After completing his term and leaving the ministry, he resumed his medical career in Tabriz. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in five terms, from 2008 to 2024, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr. He served as the first deputy speaker of the parliament from 2016 to 2020. He advocated for education in türk dili (lit. 'Turkish language') to be free in Iran. In 2016, he was elected as the head of the Fraction of Turkic Regions — itself established to support the right to education in the Turkic languages of Iran, and constituting the first ever ethnocultural political group in Iranian history with representation in the national legislature. [3]

Reporting

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Other archived reporting

[4] 2026-08-23 - Al Jazeera: Pezeshkian says Iran ‘has not become Venezuela’ despite war and sanctions
[5] 2026-08-22 - outlet not recorded: Pezeshkian claims Iran victory as Trump escalates economic war
[6] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Shafaq News..Pezeshkian urges political unity to safeguard public welfare - شفق نيوز
[7] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
[8] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
[9] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
[10] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
[11] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
[12] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
[13] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
[14] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
[15] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
...and 52 more not listed here.

See also: Iran

Publication history

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rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
rev 3, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
rev 4, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

Sources

Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

How this page is made

Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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