Masoud Pezeshkian has won the presidential elections in Iran. This was reported by an official representative of the Iranian electoral headquarters, Mohsen Islami. According to the processing results of all 30.53 million ballots, Pezeshkian, who became the ninth elected president in the history of modern Iran, received at least 53.6% of the votes from the […]
Masoud Pezeshkian has won the presidential elections in Iran. This was reported by an official representative of the Iranian electoral headquarters, Mohsen Islami. According to the processing results of all 30.53 million ballots, Pezeshkian, who became the ninth elected president in the history of modern Iran, received at least 53.6% of the votes from the total, reports iribnews.ir
Pezeshkian won the election race with 16,384,403 votes, while his opponent, Saeed Jalili, managed to secure 13,538,179 votes. In the first round, the lead also remained with reformist Masoud Pezeshkian, who received over 10.4 million votes. Conservative Saeed Jalili was trailing by about a million voters, with more than 9.4 million votes cast for him.
Completing the top three was Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who garnered over 3.3 million votes. In last place in the presidential race was Mostafa Purmohammadi, who received over 206,000 votes from voters. To win, a candidate must secure more than 50 percent of the votes.
Since no candidate received that number of votes in the first round, a new voting round took place a week later, on July 5, featuring the two candidates who received the most votes in the first round – Pezeshkian and Jalili.
Pezeshkian was born on September 29, 1954, in Mahabad (West Azerbaijan province). He is a reformist politician who represented the electoral districts of Tabriz, Osku, and Azarshahr in the Iranian parliament and served as the first deputy speaker from 2016 to 2020. He was the Minister of Health from 2001 to 2005 under President Mohammad Khatami.
A cardiothoracic surgeon by education, Pezeshkian also previously held the position of rector of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and is currently a faculty member at this prestigious university in northern Iran. He had previously run for president in 2013 and 2021 but was unsuccessful both times. Pezeshkian officially joined the campaign for the highest executive position on June 1, on the third day of registration, at the Ministry of Interior in Tehran, accompanied by a group of supporters.
Although Pezeshkian is considered a reformist, he is deeply loyal to Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Some experts have previously stated that if he is elected, Iran should not expect much more than a softening of tone towards the internal opposition. Pezeshkian will succeed Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in the northwestern mountainous region of Iran on May 19.
