Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential election
Masoud Pezeshkian is greeted by his supporters as he arrives to vote at a polling station in Shahr-e-Qods near Tehran (Vahid Salemi/AP)
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s run-off presidential election.
He beat hard-liner Saeed Jalili after promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.
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