This time new history has been written in Iran’s presidential election 2024. For the first time, reformist leader Pezeshkian has won the presidential election by a huge margin. He has also been a nuclear negotiator, who defeated hardliner Saeed Jalili by a huge margin of 28 lakh votes.
There has been a huge upset in Iran’s presidential election. Iran’s reformist leader Pezeshkian has created new history by defeating hardliner Saeed Jalili by a huge margin of 28 lakh votes. This is being seen as a period of big changes in Iran. Let us tell you that in a direct contest between the two top candidates in the presidential election held last week, reformist leader Masoud Pezeshkian defeated hardliner Saeed Jalili and won on Saturday.
It is noteworthy that after the death of President Ibrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in Iran last month, voting was held on Friday between Pezeshkian and Jalili in a direct contest. Pezeshkian was declared victorious with 16.3 million votes, while Jalili got 13.5 million votes. Earlier on June 28, in the initial round of voting, no candidate got more than 50 percent of the votes, due to which there was a direct contest between the top two candidates.
Pezeshkian’s victory was celebrated on the streets of Tehran
As Pezeshkian’s lead strengthened, his supporters took to the streets in Tehran and other cities and started celebrating. These elections have taken place at a time when there is widespread tension in West Asia over the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas and Iran has been facing an economic crisis for the last several years. Masoud Pezeshkian leans toward former President Hassan Rouhani, under whose rule Tehran signed a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. However, the nuclear deal was abandoned and hardline leaders returned to power. Masoud (69), a cardiologist, is in favor of renewing the nuclear deal and improving relations with Western countries. (AP)
