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"A new music video posted to YouTube Tuesday features Iran's President Hassan Rouhani. \nThe video comes 100 days after Rouhani appointed his cabinet, and it includes parts of the speech he delivered during the Aug. 3 ceremony at which Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed him as president, the BBC reports.\nSee also: Who's Tweeting for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani?\nThe lyrics of the song in the music video, sung in Farsi, are also based on Rouhani's speech, and the video was produced by Hoseyn Dehbashi, who also produced Rouhani's campaign videos, according to the BBC report. As the Washington Post has pointed out, the video bears striking resemblance to U.S. President Barack Obama's \"Yes We Can\" campaign video of 2008.\nTranslated to English, it begins:\n\n\"Let us give all Iranians who love their country the opportunity to serve it. Let us allow elites to serve the nation. Let us allow the hearts to be cleansed from hatred.\n\"Let us have love, peace, and friendship instead of anger and antagonism. Let us allow Islam with its peaceful face, Iran with its rational face, the revolution with its humane face, and the establishment, with its affecting face, continue to create epics.\"\n\nRouhani tweeted the following picture of the ceremony on Aug. 3, in which his clothing matches that which appears in the music video.\n\n#endorsement #unity #newpath #newbeginning #newday pic.twitter.com/TfEm840BVd\n\u2014 Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) August 3, 2013\n\nIn an apparent endorsement, the link to the video was shared from @Rouhani_ir, Rouhani's unverified Farsi Twitter account, and it was retweeted via @HassanRouhani, his English account, also unverified.\nThe video features a multitude of voices \u2014 male and female, young and old \u2014 singing the lyrics, which is perhaps intended to be a reflection on Rouhani's conciliatory political tone. Lauded as a moderate, Rouhani has dramatically changed the tenor of Iranian politics since taking over from hardline predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. \nThat change in tone has manifested itself in the form of a diplomatic agreement regarding Iran's nuclear program, which U.S. President Barack Obama announced late Saturday night. Under the agreement, the U.S. and other world powers will begin to ease economic sanctions against Iran, if Iran provides tangible proof that it does not intend to pursue a nuclear weapon.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\nImage: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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