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Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian speaks in a meeting a day after the presidential election, at the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian will be sworn in before parliament in early August as the Islamic Republic’s ninth President, state…
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Masoud Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old heart surgeon, earned the support of Iran’s main reformist coalition. Tehran: Iran’s reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday won a runoff presidential election against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, the interior ministry said.Pezeshkian received more than 16 million votes and Jalili more than 13 million out of about 30 million votes cast, electoral…
Electoral staff count ballots at a polling station after voting ended in Iran’s run-off presidential election between Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili, in Tehran, Iran July 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran’s reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian was leading in runoff presidential elections against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, according to early results released on July 6…
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A woman walks near a banner of presidential candidate Saeed Jalili displayed on a street in Tehran, Iran on June 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iranians will vote for a new president on June 28 following Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash, choosing from a tightly controlled group of four candidates loyal to…
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In this picture made available by Iranian state-run TV, Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, left, embraces reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian after the conclusion of the candidates debate at the TV studio in Tehran, Iran, on June 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A candidate in Iran’s presidential election withdrew from the race late on June 26, becoming…
