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Iran’s sole reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian and ultraconservative Saeed Jalili have qualified for a runoff presidential election after leading in the first round, an official said on Saturday. Pezeshkian got more than 10,400,000 votes and Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, has more than 9,400,000, said Mohsen Eslami, spokesman of Iran’s election authority. “None of the candidates could garner the absolute majority of the votes, therefore, the first and second contenders who got the most votes will be referred” for the second round, scheduled for next Friday, Eslami told a press confere…

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