Iran begins presidential election runoff amid low turnout

Polls opened Friday for Iran’s runoff presidential election, the interior ministry said, pitting reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili in the race to succeed Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash. The Islamic Republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all state matters, cast his ballot

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