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Tehran, Iran – 6 July 2024
1. Wide of news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohsen Eslami, spokesman for Iran’s election headquarters:
"Total votes taken are 30,530,157."
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohsen Eslami, spokesman for Iran’s election headquarters:
"Mr. Masoud Pezeshkian won 16,384,403 votes and Mr. Saeed Jalili won 13,538,179 votes. Based off these numbers Mr. Masoud Pezeshkian is announced as the winner of 14th presidential election."
5. Wide of Eslami leaving
STORYLINE:
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili.
A vote count offered by authorities put Pezeshkian as the winner with 16.3 million votes to Jalili’s 13.5 million in Friday’s election.
Supporters of Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and longtime lawmaker, entered the streets of Tehran and other cities before dawn to celebrate as his lead grew over Jalili, a hard-line former nuclear negotiator.
But Pezeshkian’s win still sees Iran at a delicate moment, with tensions high in the Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war, Iran’s advancing nuclear programme, and a looming election in the United States that could put any chance of a detente between Tehran and Washington at risk.
Pezeshkian’s victory also wasn’t a rout of Jalili, meaning he’ll have to carefully navigate Iran’s internal politics as the doctor has never held a sensitive, high-level security post.
AP video shot by: Saeed Sarmadi
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