Iran's parliament voted Thursday to elect a hard-line former mayor of Tehran as the legislative body's new speaker.
Iranian state television said Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf had been elected during a parliamentary session.
It said 230 lawmakers voted for him, without saying how many of the body's 290 legislators voted against him.
Qalibaf was one of the challengers to President Hassan Rouhani in Iran's 2017 presidential election andn served in the Revolutionary Guard Corps during the country's bloody 1980s war with Iraq.