In Iran, reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian will face off against conservative Saeed Jalili in a runoff election set for July 5, after neither candidate received enough votes in a weekend poll to win the presidency outright. Fewer than 25 million Iranians voted in the contest to replace former President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May. That’s just 40% of eligible voters — the lowest turnout in any Iranian election since the 1979 revolution.
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