The heart surgeon Masoud Pezeshkian has won the presidential election in Iran. In the election condemned by the outside world, only candidates loyal to the Islamic regime were allowed to stand. And the "reformist" Pezeshkian is expected to have very small chances of changing the closed country.
World politicsNone of the candidates received over 50 percent of the votes in Friday's presidential election in Iran, announces the Ministry of the Interior. This means that a new round of voting awaits next Friday.
WorldToday, an extraordinary presidential election is being held in Iran since the previous president, Ebrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter crash. A show for the galleries, according to Iran expert Arvin Khoshnood, who predicts a record-low voter turnout. It's no longer anyone who believes that you can influence anything by voting, he says.
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