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Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hardliner Saeed Jalili are locked in a neck-and-neck race in Iran’s presidential election, first results show. With about 12 million votes counted, Pezeshkian, a former health minister, had received some 5 million votes. Jalili, a former negotiator in nuclear talks with Western powers, followed on his heels with 4.9 million votes, Iran’s national broadcaster reported citing the election authority. Parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf was in third with some 1.6 million votes, while the fourth candidate, cleric Mostafa Pourmohammadi, only received some 9…

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