Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian. Via X.
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s presidential election, the country’s electoral authority said on July 6, defeating his conservative rival Saeed Jalili in a pivotal vote.
Out of 30.5 million votes counted in the runoff, Pezeshkian won more than 16.3 million, edging out Jalili, who won more than 13.5 million, to the official count. Voter turnout was reportedly around 50%. The runoff came after no candidate secured a majority in the first round of the election on 28 June, which saw a historically low voter turnout of 40%.
Pezeshkian vowed to extend his hand to all Iranians in his first remarks after being declared the winner of the presidential election.
“Dear people of Iran, the elections are over and this is just the beginning of our support/work. The difficult path ahead of us will not be paved except with your support, empathy and trust. I extend my hand to you and swear by my dignity that I will not leave you alone on this path. Don’t leave me alone,” he said in a post on X, echoing an earlier promise to “extend the hand of friendship to everyone” if he won.
From his side, Jalili conceded defeat in the election and stressed that anyone who is elected by the Iranian people must be respected.
“Not only should he be respected, but now we must use all our strength and help him move forward with strength,” he told state television.
The Iranian presidential election was called after the country’s previous president Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in May, in which seven others also died.
Before the elections, Pezeshkian was representing the Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr electoral district in the Parliament of Iran, and also served as its First Deputy Speaker from 2016 to 2020. He was Minister of Health and Medical Education between 2001 and 2005 in the Government of Mohammad Khatami.
Pezeshkian was elected governor to both Piranshahr and Naghadeh counties in West Azerbaijan province during the 1980s. He ran in the 2013 presidential election, but withdrew, and ran again in the 2021 election, but was rejected.
The president-elect is critical of some of Iran’s most sensitive internal security issues, like the rule played by the morality police.
He has also called for “constructive negotiations” with Western powers over a renewal of the 2015 nuclear deal in which Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in return for an easing of Western sanctions.
The election of Pezeshkian came amid high tensions in the Middle East over the ongoing Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, and related confrontation with Iran-allied groups in Lebanon and Yemen.
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yep, they needed a more western style leader.
it’s all part of the game.
another gangster with a salami in his rectum.
lol
stupo amerikan believes reform is western–u amerikunts unable to think
well seems to me like a win for the us. will russia be aloud to supply their forces in syria. will huthis get arms supplys going further? after taking out argentina out of the brics/ sco block now to take the head of the resistance axis would be a masterpeace if it works out.
barely 40% of voters came to vote, and of those 40% (apparently between 40 and 50 % on the second run) he got 52.8% of the votes… now the greatest showing for now, but time will tell… i don’t expect drastic changes any time soon.
exactly. ayatolla’s are the real head´s of the snake.
this bag of dirt will continue to do what he is being told.
until it takes a chopper.
lol
moron amerikunts inferior species
that is how democracy works!!!!!!!
that is why demicracy is the chosen government of zionism.
it is easy to manipulate and people love it because they think it makes them free.
it is the mark of the beast.
i was standing for jalili. all so called reformists are useless, especially in hard times of decisive actions. i simply distrust them, reformists are ruining countries and selling them out to western sodomites. look at the rural reich or armenia for instance, not saying about gorbachov and yeltsin (hope they rot in hell). though i’m optimistic about iran’s future, because the president is not the head of state here.
real reform will be when 20-30 iranian women go grab a stick and beat the crap out of the religious police and declare for women’s rights
if you give too much rights to women they will organize and go feminist on your azz.
than you will have lgbtq+ there too. it’s revenge of the women. can’t do it. arabs or moslems for that matter cannot live freely or even appreciate freedom. they are born to be supressed.
what rights? women are members of parliament and government of iran. they have all civil rights. don’t stick your nose in other people traditions or they’ll have full right cut your too long nose. iranians doesn’t install their own rules by the force in other countries, so let them live as they wish.
i am dumb amerikunt—i believe my ugly cesspool is dimocrcy
yes, you fucking are. day after day blabbing same sentence.
he reports will develop closer relations w russia china turkey–sco and brics nations