The race between hard-line Saeed Jalili and reformist Masoud Pezeshkian comes after a first round of voting saw the lowest turnout ever for an Iranian election, leaving turnout Friday a major question.
Iranians began voting on Friday for a candidate to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East.
(AP/ Saeed Sarmadi and Mohsen Ganji)
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