{"id":21630,"date":"2024-07-06T04:35:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T04:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=21630"},"modified":"2024-07-06T04:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T04:42:04","slug":"masoud-pezeshkian-wins-irans-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/07\/masoud-pezeshkian-wins-irans-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran&#8217;s presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The low-profile moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has pledged to open Iran to the world and deliver freedoms its people have yearned for, has won the country&#8217;s run-off presidential vote, the interior ministry said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By gaining majority of the votes cast on Friday, Pezeshkian has become Iran&#8217;s next president,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The participation was around 50% in a tight race between Pezeshkian, the sole moderate in the original field of four candidates, and hardline former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, a staunch advocate of deepening ties with Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>The run-off on Friday followed a June 28 ballot with historically low turnout, when over 60% of Iranian voters abstained from the snap election for a successor to Ebrahim Raisi, following his death in a helicopter crash, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>While the election is expected to have little impact on the Islamic Republic&#8217;s policies, the president will be closely involved in selecting the successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s 85-year-old Supreme Leader, who calls all the shots on top matters of state.<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout has plunged over the past four years, which critics say underlines that support for clerical rule has eroded at a time of growing public discontent over economic hardship and curbs on political and social freedoms, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Only 48% of voters participated in the 2021 election that brought Raisi to power, and turnout was 41% in a parliamentary election in March.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The low-profile moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has pledged to open Iran to the world and deliver freedoms its people have yearned for, has won the country&#8217;s run-off presidential vote, the interior ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,982,5,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-international","category-politics_","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21634,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630\/revisions\/21634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}