Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has nominated a veteran diplomat who was heavily involved in the negotiations for the now-defunct 2015 Iran nuclear deal to serve as his foreign minister, even as the new administration faces growing domestic pressure to respond to a suspected Israeli strike that killed a top Palestinian Hamas leader in the heart of Tehran last month.

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