Tehran: After the UK elections, everyone’s eyes were on the Iranian elections. Because the atmosphere here was quite tense for a long time after the death of Mahsa Amini. It is reported that Iran’s reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won the presidential election against hardliner Saeed Jalili on Saturday.
According to the election results, out of the three crore votes counted so far, Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian has got 53.3 percent votes while Jalili has got 44.3 percent votes.After the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, Iranian MP Masoud Pezeshkian wrote that ‘arresting a girl for her hijab and then handing over her body to her family is unacceptable in the Islamic Republic.’
A few days later, as nationwide protests and a bloody crackdown on all dissent gained momentum, he warned that those ‘insulting the supreme leader … will create nothing but long-lasting anger and hatred in society.’After the lowest voter turnout in history in Iran’s June 28 presidential election, Pezeshkian won 16.3 million votes against hardliner Saeed Jalili’s 13.5 million and won Friday’s runoff election. Now he has to convince a public angry with years of economic pain and bloody repression that he can bring the change he promised.
It is known that former President Ibrahim Raisi of Iran died in a helicopter crash this year while serving as President. Ibrahim Raisi was returning after inaugurating a dam in East Azerbaijan province when his helicopter crashed. Nine people, including the President and the Foreign Minister, died in this accident. After this, elections were held for a new President in Iran.