Jul 8, 2024
President-elect Massoud Pezashkian acknowledges his supporters at the shrine of the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Khomeini on Saturday. (Photo Courtesy of Associated Press)
Reformist candidate Massoud Pezashkian won the Iranian presidential election in a runoff on Saturday, beating the hard-liner Saeed Jalili by 2.8 million votes after neither candidate secured a simple majority on June 28, yielding the lowest-ever voter turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.
Pezashkian promises better ties to the West, to abolish the mandatory hijab law, and renew the Iran Nuclear Deal with the United States.
The Iranian presidential election was called in May after the late President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-abdollahian were killed in a helicopter crash.
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