Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won the second round of the presidential elections in Iran, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the election commission, Mohsen Eslami.
According to the election commission, after counting 30 million 573,9 thousand votes, voter turnout was 49,8 percent.
69-year-old Masoud Pezeshkian is known as a reformist politician. He is a member of the Iranian parliament for the last five convocations. A physician by profession, Pezeshkian served as Iran's Minister of Health and Medical Education during the second term of President Mohammad Khatami (2001–2005).
This is Pezeshkian's third attempt to run for president. He was not successful in previous campaigns: 12 years ago he independently withdrew his candidacy, and in 2021 the Supervisory Board did not approve his candidacy to participate in the elections.
