Reformist, ultraconservative qualify for Iran runoff election

Pezeshkian got more than 10,400,000 votes and Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, has more than 9,400,000, said Mohsen Eslami, spokesman of Iran's election authority. "None of the candidates could garner the absolute majority of the votes, therefore, the first and second contenders who got the most votes will be referred" for the second round, scheduled for next Friday, Eslami told a press conference. Out of around 61 million eligible voters, some 24,500,000 voters headed to the polls, he added...