Reformist to face ultraconservative in Iran presidency runoff

Top candidates Saeed Jalili and Massoud Pezeshkian will face off in Iran 's run-off presidential election on Jul 5, 2024. TEHRAN: The sole reformist in Iran 's presidential election, Masoud Pezeshkian, will face the ultraconservative Saeed Jalili in a runoff, authorities said on Saturday ,

In his first post-election remarks, Pezeshkian thanked his supporters and urged them to vote again next Friday"to save the country from poverty, lies, discrimination and injustice". In the 2021 election that brought Raisi to power, the Guardian Council disqualified many reformists and moderates, prompting many voters to shun the election.

Iranian presidential candidate and reformist Massoud Pezeshkian reacts to the crowd outside a polling station where he cast his vote in the presidential election in Tehran on Jun 28, 2024. Pezeshkian criticised Raisi's government for a lack of transparency during nationwide protests triggered by the September 2022 death in police custody of Mahsa Amini.

"If he wins, he will have to work with a parliament whose head is Ghalibaf and the Supreme National Security Council whose head is Jalili," he added.

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