Polls open in Iran presidential election runoff amid declining voter turnout

Iranians began voting Friday in a runoff election to replace the late president Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month. Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old heart surgeon, faces ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, after a first round marred by a record-low turnout.

Polls open in Iran presidential election runoff amid declining voter turnout
Iranians began voting Friday in a runoff election to replace the late president Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month. Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old heart surgeon, faces ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, after a first round marred by a record-low turnout.

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