Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by ...

Iran held a runoff presidential election Friday pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker, though both men earlier struggled to convince a skeptical public to cast ...

Mohsen Eslami, the election spokesman, said Pezeshkian had 2,904,227 votes trailed by Jalili with 2,815,566 votes, with 5,819,911 votes counted in 13,277 polling stations. There are some 60,000 ...

DUBAI, July 5. /TASS/. The runoff of the snap presidential election will take place in Iran on Friday, with polling stations opening at 8:00 a.m. local time (04:30 a.m. GMT). The results are ...

The first round of Iran’s presidential election saw both Pezeshkian and Jalili progress to the runoff with 44 and 40 percent of the vote respectively. The first round of the election ...

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Former Health Minister Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s runoff presidential election. [AFP] Former Health Minister Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s runoff presidential election against the ...

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Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and reformer, defeated a hardliner in Iran’s July presidential runoff, after the death of the ...

Pezeshkian won a runoff election on July 5 against the ultraconservative Saeed Jalili to replace president Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash in May. The 69-year-old reformist secured more ...

Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and reformer, defeated a hardliner in Iran’s July presidential runoff, after the death ... On the U.S. presidential election Pezeshkian responded to America’s ...