{"id":7904,"date":"2024-07-06T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T10:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2024-07-06T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T10:42:05","slug":"moderate-pezeshkian-wins-iran-presidential-election-urges-people-to-stick-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/moderate-pezeshkian-wins-iran-presidential-election-urges-people-to-stick-with-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election, urges people to stick with him"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUBAI, July 6 (Reuters) – Relative moderate Masoud Pezeshkian urged people on Saturday to stick with him on “the difficult road ahead” after beating a hardline rival to win Iran’s presidential election<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday’s run-off vote was between Pezeshkian, the sole moderate in the original field of four candidates<\/a>, and hardline former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pezeshkian<\/a>, a 69-year-old cardiac surgeon, has pledged to promote a pragmatic foreign policy, ease tensions over now-stalled negotiations with major powers to revive a 2015 nuclear pact and improve prospects for social liberalisation and political pluralism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However many Iranians are sceptical about his ability to fulfil his campaign promises as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, not the president, is the ultimate authority in the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Dear people of Iran, the election is over, and this is just the beginning of our working together. A difficult road is ahead. It can only be smooth with your cooperation, empathy and trust,” Pezeshkian said in a post on social media platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I extend my hand to you and swear on my honour that I will not abandon you on this path. Do not abandon me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turnout was almost 50% in Friday’s vote, following historically low turnout<\/a> in the first round ballot on June 28, when over 60% of Iranian voters abstained. The election was called after President Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> was killed in a helicopter crash in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commending the high turnout, Khamenei congratulated Pezeshkian on his win and counselled him to continue Raisi’s policies.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DUBAI, July 6 (Reuters) – Relative moderate Masoud Pezeshkian urged people on Saturday to stick with him on “the difficult road ahead” after beating a hardline rival to win Iran’s presidential election. Friday’s run-off vote was between Pezeshkian, the sole moderate in the original field of four candidates, and hardline former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":7905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396,342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}