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Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: Iran’s runoff election pits reformist Pezeshkian against hardliner Jalili
Description: Iran (MNN) — Iranians head to the polls again today after the June 28 snap election failed to yield a majority winner.
Last week saw the lowest turnout in Iran’s history, with over 60 percent of voters withholding their ballots. Since no candidate got more than half the votes cast, the top two finishers advanced to a run-off election today.
Saeed Jalili in a 2021 interview.(Wikimedia Commons)
Voters can choose either reformist Masoud Pezeshkian or hardliner Saeed Jalili. For some, the choice is “picking your poison” or selecting one bad option above another. Jalili strongly...