Masoud Pezeshkian has beat Saeed Jalili to win Iran's presidential runoff election; Pezeshkian promised outreach to the West and to ease enforcement of Iran's headscarf law.
After polls closed at midnight, turnout stood at about 50%, roughly 10 percentage points higher than in the first round, with about 30.5 million ballots cast, according to the Interior Ministry.
Amid charges that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s election allows the rogue regime in Tehran to ‘extend influence" in the U.S., there are mounting protests against the voting stations.
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran's runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the…
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The United States on Saturday criticised Iran's presidential election as neither free nor fair, saying it likely would not change the Islamic Republic's stance on human rights.
Masoud Pezeshkian, a cardiac surgeon and relative moderate in the ruling establishment, defeated an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator in a runoff.
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran's runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country's mandatory headscarf law after years of…