Pezeshkian named Iran’s next president after comfortable win
Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s snap presidential election by securing 16,384,403 votes, according to official figures.
His ultraconservative contender Saeed Jalili won 13,538,179 votes in a runoff election boycotted by over 50% of eligible voters.
A total of 30,530,157 ballots were cast, the figures released by the Interior Ministry show. Total number of eligible voters were around 61.5 million.
