Voting for presidential runoff commences in Iran

Voting for the Iran presidential runoff commenced on Friday morning, with two top contenders, Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili, in the run.

Pezeshkian, a reformist and Iran’s former health minister, and Jalili, a principlist and the former chief negotiator in the nuclear talks between



Tehran and world powers, both have cast their votes in the capital city, accompanied by their supporters.

Earlier, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, voted in the first minutes of the voting and stressed the need for a higher turnout, the official website of the leader said in a post on X.