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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, July 6: Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran\u2019s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country\u2019s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.Mr. Pezeshkian promised no radical changes to Iran\u2019s Shiite theocracy in his campaign and long has held Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the final arbiter of all matters of state in the country. But even Mr. Pezeshkian\u2019s modest aims will be challenged by an Iranian government still largely held by hard-liners, the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, and Western fears over Tehran enriching uranium to near-weapons-grade levels.
\nA vote count offered by authorities put Mr. Pezeshkian as the winner with 16.3 million votes to Jalili\u2019s 13.5 million in Friday\u2019s election. Overall, Iran\u2019s Interior Ministry said 30 million people voted in an election held without internationally recognized monitors.
\nSupporters of Mr. Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and longtime lawmaker, entered the streets of Tehran and other cities before dawn to celebrate as his lead grew over Jalili, a hard-line former nuclear negotiator.
\nBut Mr. Pezeshkian\u2019s win still sees Iran at a delicate moment, with tensions high in the Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war, Iran\u2019s advancing nuclear program, and a looming election in the United States that could put any chance of a detente between Tehran and Washington at risk. Mr. Pezeshkian\u2019s victory also wasn\u2019t a rout of Jalili, meaning he\u2019ll have to carefully navigate Iran\u2019s internal politics as the doctor has never held a sensitive, high-level security post.
\nThe first round of voting June 28 saw the lowest turnout in the history of the Islamic Republic since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranian officials have long pointed to turnout as a sign of support for the country\u2019s Shiite theocracy, which has been under strain after years of sanctions crushing Iran\u2019s economy, mass demonstrations and intense crackdowns on all dissent.
\nGovernment officials up to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei predicted a higher participation rate as voting got underway, with state television airing images of modest lines at some polling centers across the country.
\nHowever, online videos purported to show some polls empty while a survey of several dozen sites in the capital, Tehran, saw light traffic amid a heavy security presence on the streets.
\nAuthorities put the turnout in Friday\u2019s election at 49.6%, still historically low for an Iranian presidential election. They counted 607,575 voided votes in the contest \u2014 which often are a sign of protest by those who feel obligated to cast a ballot but reject both candidates.
\nThe election came amid heightened regional tensions. In April, Iran launched its first-ever direct attack on Israel over the war in Gaza, while militia groups that Tehran arms in the region \u2014 such as the Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels \u2014 are engaged in the fighting and have escalated their attacks.
\nIran is also enriching uranium at near weapons-grade levels and maintains a stockpile large enough to build several nuclear weapons, should it choose to do so. And while Khamenei remains the final decision-maker on matters of state, whichever man ends up winning the presidency could bend the country\u2019s foreign policy toward either confrontation or collaboration with the West.
\nThe campaign also repeatedly touched on what would happen if former President Donald Trump, who unilaterally withdrew America from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, won the November election. Iran has held indirect talks with President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, though there\u2019s been no clear movement back toward constraining Tehran\u2019s nuclear program for the lifting of economic sanctions.
\nThough identifying with reformists and relative moderates within Iran\u2019s theocracy during the campaign, Pezeshkian at the same time honored Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, on one occasion wearing its uniform to parliament. He repeatedly criticized the United States and praised the Guard for shooting down an American drone in 2019, saying it \u201cdelivered a strong punch in the mouth of the Americans and proved to them that our country will not surrender.\u201d
\nMore than 61 million Iranians over the age of 18 were eligible to vote, with about 18 million of them between 18 and 30. Voting was to end at 6 p.m. but was extended until midnight to boost participation.
\nThe late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash, was seen as a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Khamenei and a potential successor as supreme leader.
\nStill, many knew him for his involvement in the mass executions that Iran conducted in 1988, and for his role in the bloody crackdowns on dissent that followed protests over the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman detained by police over allegedly improperly wearing the mandatory headscarf, or hijab. (Agencies)<\/p>\n

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