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Iranians headed back to the ballot box on Friday in a run-off presidential election that pitted reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian against hardliner Saeed Jalili after last week’s vote failed to produce a clear winner. Some 61 million people were eligible to vote for a successor to president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cast his ballot and urged the entire nation to take part in the vote, following a first round where turnout hit a record low 40%. “God willing, we will have a president tomorrow,” Khamenei said in the capital Teh…

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