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Masoud Pazshkian is an MP from Tabriz city of Iran and the country’s Health Minister.
The results will be announced today after the second round of voting in Iran on Friday (5 July). According to the report of Iranian media Press TV, more than 2 crore votes have been counted so far. In this, Masoud Pazashkian, MP from Iran’s Tabriz city, is leading. He has received 1.27 crore votes so far.
On the other hand, hardline leader Saeed Jalili has received 1.04 crore votes so far. Nearly 50% (more than 3 crore) of the country’s population voted in the 16-hour-long voting on July 5. According to the official time, voting was to end at 6 pm. However, later it was extended till 12 midnight.
Khamenei appealed to people to vote after casting his vote on Friday morning.
No one got majority in the first phase
The first phase of voting in Iran took place on May 28. No candidate was able to cross the majority mark. However, Pazshkian came first with 42.5% votes and Jalili came second with 38.8% votes.
According to Iran’s constitution, if no candidate gets a majority in the first round, then the next round of voting takes place between the top 2 candidates. The candidate who gets the majority in this will be the next president of the country.
Presidential elections are being held after the death of Iran’s President Ibrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on May 19. After casting his vote on Friday morning, the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that this time more voting is taking place than in the previous phase. This is a matter of great happiness.
Masood Pazshkian opposes hijab
Pazashkian, an MP from Tabriz, has been identified as the most liberal leader. According to Iranian media Iran Wire, people see Pazashkian as a reformist. He is considered close to former President Hassan Rouhani.
Pazashkian is a former surgeon and is currently the country’s health minister. He has opposed the hijab several times in debates. He says that no one has the right to moral policing. Pazashkian first became an MP from Tabriz in 2006. He considers America his enemy.
In 2011, he registered to run for president, but later withdrew his candidacy. Pazshkian emphasizes on implementing the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Iran and adopting policies to lift economic sanctions of Western countries.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an organization that monitors money laundering and terror funding. It prevents its member countries from engaging in activities like terror funding and money laundering. Iran has been on the FATF blacklist since 2019. Because of this, IMF, ADB, World Bank or any financial body does not help Iran financially.
Iran’s radical leader Saeed Jalili believes that the country does not need to bow down to America for economic development.
Saeed Jalili has an aggressive stance on nuclear weapons
Saeed Jalili is considered close to Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei. He has been the former secretary of the country’s National Security Commission. Jalili takes an aggressive stance on nuclear weapons. He is also a staunch opponent of America.
He says that Iran does not need to depend on Western countries to improve its economy. Conservative leader Jalili believes that Iran should be so economically self-sufficient that even America regrets imposing sanctions.
The hijab law has been in place in Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
The issue of hijab also came up
This election is the first time that new issues like corruption, Western sanctions, freedom of the press, and immigration prevention have come to the fore. The most surprising election issue is the hijab law. This has been a major issue on the minds of many voters in 2022 due to the anti-hijab movement in Iran and its subsequent suppression by the government.
The hijab has long been a symbol of religious identity, but in Iran it has also been a political weapon. Ever since the hijab law was implemented in Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women have protested against it in various ways. More than half of Iran’s 61 million voters are women.
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