Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian and conservative hardliner Saeed Jalili will go to a run-off vote in Iran’s presidential election, the country’s electoral authority said on Saturday. Pezeshkian received around 42.5% of the vote and Jalili followed at 38.7%. There were two other candidates in the race. As none achieved an absolute majority, the run-off will […]
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hardliner Saeed Jalili are locked in a neck-and-neck race in Iran’s presidential election, first results show. With about 12 million votes counted, Pezeshkian, a former health minister, had received some 5 million votes. Jalili, a former negotiator in nuclear talks with Western powers, followed on his heels with 4.9 million votes, […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Early results in Iran’s presidential election put hard-liner Saeed Jalili slightly ahead Saturday, followed closely behind by reformist Masoud Pezeshkian. The early results, reported by Iranian state television, did not initially put Jalili in a position to win Friday’s election outright, potentially setting the stage for a runoff election […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s parliament re-elected hard-liner Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf on Tuesday as its speaker, reaffirming its hard-right makeup in the wake of a helicopter crash that killed the country’s president and foreign minister. Of 287 lawmakers voting, 198 backed Qalibaf to retain the position he first took in 2021. He initially […]