Date announced for Iran's presidential runoff election

Iran's election official Mohsen Eslami said the results of Iran's 14th presidential election show that Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili have won the second round scheduled for July 5, IRNA reported.Eslami announced on Saturday the counting of ballots in ballot boxes at 58,640 polling stations across the country and another 344 abroad.More than 61 million Iranians were eligible to vote in the election. The results of Iran's 14th presidential election show a tight contest between Pezeshkian and Jalili.After 24,535,185 votes were counted, Pezeshkian won with 10,415,991 votes while Jalili had 9,473,298. Another candidate, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, had 3,383,340 votes, while Mostafa Pourmohammadi had 206,397.According to Iranian electoral law, the runoff between the two main candidates is held on the first Friday after the results are announced if neither candidate gets 50%+1 of the votes.