Pools closed after midnight after voting was extended, as has become tradition in Iran.
Iran held a run-off presidential election on Friday, pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist legislator – though both men earlier struggled to convince a sceptical public to cast ballots in the first round that saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.
Iranian presidential election candidates Masoud Pezeshkian, left, a reformist and former Health Minister, and Saeed Jalili, a hard-line former senior nuclear negotiator Mr Khamenei has insisted the low turnout from the first round on June 28 didn’t represent a referendum on Iran’s Shiite theocracy. Mr Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon, has campaigned on relaxing hijab enforcement and reaching out to the West, though he too for decades has supported Mr Khamenei and Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
An Iranian woman fills out her ballot for the presidential runoff election at a polling station in Tehran Mr Jalili voted at another poll, surrounded by a crowd shouting: “Raisi, your way continues!” “This is your right to decide which person, which path and which approach should rule the country in the next four years.”
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