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On Friday, Iranian voters will now determine who will be the number one man in their country’s executive branch in the second round of elections. They will elect a new president from candidates close to two rival political factions — little-known reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili, a hard-line former nuclear negotiator — to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of Khamenei killed in a helicopter crash in May. The low turnout in the first round and speculations about the voters’ final choice have been the key talking points as the runoff is about to show the di…

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