Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian, who promised to reach out to the West in an effort to ease tensions, defeated hardliner Saeed Jalili to become Iran’s new president and immediately urged Iranians to stick with him during the “difficult road ahead,” according to reports. Pezeshkian, a cardiac surgeon, won the runoff election Friday with 16.3 million votes to Jalili’s 13.5 million with turnout at about 50%, Reuters reported. The first round of voting on June 28 saw historically low voter turnout. The election was called after the death of PresidentEbrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in May. Pezeshki…