This guy Pezeshkian is a total con and scam.  He is now promoting Pahlavi era and RP.  Unbelievable. I think regime is doing anything to get people voting. Zarif also knows that he is fucked with sanctions and traveling to Europe or US means his arrest.  So somehow he wants to become a foreign minister again so that he can make it to his favorite restaurant in Georgetown.  

Pezeshkian continued his education, specializing in general surgery at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. In 1993, he received a subspecialty in cardiac surgery from Iran University of Medical Sciences. He later became a specialist in heart surgery, leading him to become president of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in 1994, a position he held for five years.^[4]

Career

Pezeshkian’s political journey began when he joined Mohammad Khatami’sadministration as Deputy Health Minister in 1997. He was appointed Health Minister four years later, serving from 2001 to 2005.^[5] Since then, he has been elected to the Iranian parliament five times, representing Tabriz, and served as the First Deputy Speaker of the parliament from 2016 to 2020.

Pezeshkian is a Quran teacher, and reciter of the Nahj al-balagha, a key text for Shia Muslims.^[6] He is also a member of Iran-Turkey Friendship society.^[7]

Views

IRGC

Pezeshkian is a supporter of the IRGC, and has called the current IRGC "different from the past".^[8] He condemed the declaration of IRGC as a terrorist organization by United States in 2019.^[9] After the 2019 Iranian shoot-down of American drone, Pezeshkian called the American government terrorist and described the IRGC's action to target the drone as "a strong punch to the mouths of the leaders of criminal America".^[10] In a university meeting and in response to some criticisms, Pezeshkian put on the IRGC uniform, and said that he would wear it again.