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Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian and conservative hardliner Saeed Jalili will go to a run-off in Iran’s presidential election next week, after record low turnout in the first round. Pezeshkian received 42.5% of the vote and Jalili followed at 38.7%. As neither achieved an absolute majority, the run-off will take place on July 5, the country’s electoral authority said. There were two other candidates in the race: current parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf garnered nearly 14% of the vote while cleric Mostafa Pourmohammadi got less than 1%. Some 61 million voters in Iran were eli…

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