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Early presidential elections in Iran were held on 28 June and 5 July 2024 [1] following the death of incumbent president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on 19 May. [2]Four candidates contested the first round of the election, in which Masoud Pezeshkian won 44%, Saeed Jalili won 40%, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf won 14% and Mostafa Pourmohammadi won less than 1% of the vote.
Iran has two candidates set to face off on Friday’s runoff presidential election. One is Saeed Jalili, 58, who served as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator under former President Mahmoud ...
Iran votes in snap poll for new president after hard-liner's death amid rising tensions in Mideast. ... There's been only one runoff presidential election in Iran's history, in 2005, when hard ...
Iran’s presidential election is heading to a second round after none of the four candidates managed to secure more than 50% in Friday’s vote. Iran’s presidential election heads to a runoff ...
The President of Iran is the highest official elected by direct, popular vote, although the President carries out the decrees, and answers to the Supreme Leader of Iran, who functions as the country's head of state. [1] [2] Chapter IX of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran sets forth
Iran held a runoff presidential election on Friday that pitted a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker. Early results reported by Iran’s election authority on state ...
A survey released by the state-owned polling center ISPA on 29 February expected a turnout of 38.5 percent nationwide and 23.5 percent in Tehran. [16] Actual turnout was at 41 percent, equivalent to about 25 million voters and the lowest since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. [17] About five percent of ballots cast were also declared "invalid". [4]
The zealous anti-Westerner and the low-key moderate hoping to become Iran's next president could struggle to mobilise millions of supporters in Friday's run-off election amid voter apathy about a ...