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Tehran, Iran – 30 June 2024
1. Various of Saeed Jalili, hardline presidential candidate, watching athletes performing at traditional gym
2. Various of Jalili at meeting
3. Jalili speaking
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Tehran, Iran – 28 June 2024
4. Various of Jalili arriving at polling station
5. Jalili turning to wave to supporters
6. Jalili casting ballot and waving to supporters
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Tehran, Iran – 24 June 2024
7. Various of Jalili and supporters during campaign rally
STORYLINE:
Saeed Jalili is on the precipice of being elected as Iran’s next president as he faces a runoff election Friday against the little-known reform candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon.
With Iran’s nuclear program enriching uranium at levels near-weapons grade, a win by Jalili may again see already-stalled negotiations freeze.
Meanwhile, Jalili’s own hard-line vision for Iran — derided by opponents as being in the style of the Taliban — potentially risks inflaming a public still angry after the bloody security force crackdown that followed the demonstrations over the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini.
Jalili, known for his shock of white hair and beard, is known as the “Living Martyr" after losing his right leg in combat at the age of 21 during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.
He was born Sept. 6, 1965, in the Shiite holy city of Mashhad, his Kurdish father a French teacher and a school principal and his mother an Azeri.
Jalili worked as a university professor with a doctorate before joining Iran’s Foreign Ministry, working his way up to a top position before joining Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and becoming the country’s top nuclear negotiator under Ahmadinejad from 2007 to 2013.
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