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Preliminary election results have placed Iranian presidential candidate Massoud Pezeshkian ahead of his rivals with over 8,300,000 votes in a contest expected to head into a run-off next week.
According to the latest polling, reformist Pezeshkian leads conservative candidates Saeed Jalili (7,100,000 votes) and Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (2,600,000 votes) with a turnout of just 40 per cent of the population, the lowest in the Islamic Republic's history.
Footage shows Pezeshkian casting a ballot in the election's first round and attending campaign events in June with former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
In a televised debate, Pezeshkian declared that if he wins the elections, he will work on reviving the nuclear agreement, arguing that 'negotiations with the US are not of humiliation' but in Iran's interests.
Pezeshkian, a reformist politician, doctor, and representative of Tabriz, Azershahr, and Asko in the Iranian parliament, was born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, in 1954.
He served as First Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament in the tenth session. He was Minister of Health and Medical Education in the government of former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
Pezeshkian studied general surgery at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and then specialized in cardiac surgery at the Iranian University of Medical Sciences before being appointed chairman of the Shahid Madani Hospital for Cardiology.
Preliminary results place Pezeshkian ahead in Iran's presidential election *ARCHIVE*
Preliminary election results have placed Iranian presidential candidate Massoud Pezeshkian ahead of his rivals with over 8,300,000 votes in a contest expected to head into a run-off next week.
According to the latest polling, reformist Pezeshkian leads conservative candidates Saeed Jalili (7,100,000 votes) and Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (2,600,000 votes) with a turnout of just 40 per cent of the population, the lowest in the Islamic Republic's history.
Footage shows Pezeshkian casting a ballot in the election's first round and attending campaign events in June with former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
In a televised debate, Pezeshkian declared that if he wins the elections, he will work on reviving the nuclear agreement, arguing that 'negotiations with the US are not of humiliation' but in Iran's interests.
Pezeshkian, a reformist politician, doctor, and representative of Tabriz, Azershahr, and Asko in the Iranian parliament, was born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, in 1954.
He served as First Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament in the tenth session. He was Minister of Health and Medical Education in the government of former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
Pezeshkian studied general surgery at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and then specialized in cardiac surgery at the Iranian University of Medical Sciences before being appointed chairman of the Shahid Madani Hospital for Cardiology.
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Preliminary election results have placed Iranian presidential candidate Massoud Pezeshkian ahead of his rivals with over 8,300,000 votes in a contest expected to head into a run-off next week.
According to the latest polling, reformist Pezeshkian leads conservative candidates Saeed Jalili (7,100,000 votes) and Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (2,600,000 votes) with a turnout of just 40 per cent of the population, the lowest in the Islamic Republic's history.
Footage shows Pezeshkian casting a ballot in the election's first round and attending campaign events in June with former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
In a televised debate, Pezeshkian declared that if he wins the elections, he will work on reviving the nuclear agreement, arguing that 'negotiations with the US are not of humiliation' but in Iran's interests.
Pezeshkian, a reformist politician, doctor, and representative of Tabriz, Azershahr, and Asko in the Iranian parliament, was born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, in 1954.
He served as First Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament in the tenth session. He was Minister of Health and Medical Education in the government of former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
Pezeshkian studied general surgery at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and then specialized in cardiac surgery at the Iranian University of Medical Sciences before being appointed chairman of the Shahid Madani Hospital for Cardiology.