Early leads to Iran’s presidential election put hard-liner Saeed Jalili forward Saturday, adopted by reformist Masoud Pezeshkian.
The early outcomes, reported by Iranian state tv, didn’t initially put Jalili ready to win Friday’s election outright, doubtlessly setting the stage for a runoff election.
It additionally didn’t provide any turnout figures for the race but — a vital element of whether or not Iran’s electorate backs its Shiite theocracy.
Jalili had over 10 million votes, adopted by Pezeshkian with 4.2 million. One other candidate, hard-line speaker of the parliament Mohmmad Bagher Qalibaf, had some 1.38 million votes. Shiite cleric Mostafa Pourmohammadi had greater than 80,000 votes.