Reformist presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian waves as he arrives to vote at a polling station in Shahr-e-Qods near Tehran on Friday. Iran held a runoff presidential election Friday pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker, though both men earlier struggled to convince a skeptical public to cast ballots in the first round that saw the lowest turnout …
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian casts his ballot and waves to media in Tehran on Friday. Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history. With Jalili now alone in facing the cardiac surgeon, Pezeshkian’s campaign would need to …