DUBAI: Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won the presidential run-off, the spokesman for the Islamic Republic's Election Office, Mohsen Eslami, announced Saturday. Pezeshkian received 16.384 million or 53.6 percent of the 30.530 million total votes cast, to become Iran's ninth president, Eslami announced on IRIB TV channel. His conservative opponent Saeed Jalili took 44.3 percent or 13.538 million votes. The electoral office said the total voter turnout was recorded at 49.8 percent. The election on Friday was called after Iran's previous president, Ebrahim Raisi, was killed together with seven others in a helicopter crash in May. Source: Philippines News Agency
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