Iran: Masoud Pezeshkian Wins 14th Presidential Election By Beating His Rival, Saeed Jalili

Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist and former Health Minister of Iran won the 14th presidential election by beating his rival, Saeed Jalili. Masoud Pezeshkian got over 16 million votes of the total 30 million votes in the runoff.

Voting for the Iran presidential runoff commenced on yesterday morning, with two top contenders, Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili, a principlist and the former chief negotiator in the nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers, in the run.

Earlier, Iran went to polls on 28th of June, in which Pezeshkian garnered 42.6 per cent of the total votes, while Jalili got 38.8 per cent. Since none of the candidates were able to cross the 50 per cent mark required to win the presidential race, a runoff was scheduled to elect the new President of Iran.

Iran’s 14th presidential election, which had initially been set for 2025, was rescheduled following the unexpected death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on 19th May, this year.