Reformist Pezeshkian unexpectedly wins first round in Iranian election

Iran ian presidential candidate Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist, waves at supporters during a campaign event at a stadium in Tehram. Photograph: Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times’s election could determine whether the country’s next president will be reformist Masoud Pezeshkian or hardliner Saeed Jalili. In the first round, Pezeshkian unexpectedly secured 10.41 million votes and Jalili 9.47 million .

Born to an Azeri father and Kurdish mother, Pezeshkian can expect backing from these minority communities as well as reformists. He is a surgeon who served as health minister and is a sitting member of parliament. He has pledged to revive the 2015 deal limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief, which could boost the faltering economy.

Jalili is the most hardline conservative selected. After losing part of his right leg while a soldier during the Iran-Iraq War , he is considered a “living martyr”. He was nuclear negotiator and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and currently serves in the Expediency Council, which advises supreme leader AyatollahThe first-round turnout – the lowest since Iran’s 1979 revolution – was only 24.5 million in an apathetic and boycotting electorate of 61 million.

The supreme leader and Iran’s president are the top figures in the government, which consists of a superstructure of unelected clerical bodies grafted on to an elected executive and legislature. The president has considerable influence. He nominates ministers and chairs the cabinet, heads the national security council, makes economic policy, issues decrees and signs legislation.

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