国际英语新闻:Rouhani sworn in as Iran's new president

The West accuses the Islamic republic for providing financial and military support for the Syrian government in its confrontation with the opposition.

About his domestic policies, Rouhani said that he will save the economy of the country, deal with the economic hardships of the people and fight poverty.

Iran's seventh president called his administration as the " government of prudence and hope" and vowed to stick to the law and promise of change.

The new president pledged to vindicate the rights of women and minorities and to fight social discrimination and corruption.

At the end of the ceremony, Rouhani introduced the names of his cabinet nominees to the parliament.

Among the proposed ministers, Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh is as the oil minister and the former Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Mohammad-Javad Zarif is the foreign minister.

Namdar-Zanganeh served as the minister of energy from 1988 to 1997 and Iran's oil minister from 1997 to 2005, and Zarif was also Iran's ambassador to the UN from 2002 to 2007 and a member of Iran 's nuclear negotiating team from 2003 to 2005.

The Iranian parliament will start to study the list of the president within one week, said Ali Larijani, Iran's Malis ( parliament) speaker.