Former Iranian president Hassan Rowhani has described the election of reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian as an opportunity to revive negotiations with the West on the country’s nuclear programme. Pezeshkian won Iran’s presidential election after beating his ultra-conservative rival Saeed Jalili in a run-off vote on Saturday. Iran’s electoral authority said that Pezeshkian, a former health minister, received 53.7% of the votes cast to Jalili’s 44.3%. The Shargh newspaper quoted Rowhani, who was president from 2013 to 2021 and widely seen as a centrist, as calling Pezeshkian’s victory a “popu…