Iran candidates hold final rallies before presidential run-off on Friday

In a bustling Tehran prayer hall, ultraconservative Saeed Jalili has rallied fervent supporters ahead of Friday’s runoff presidential vote, while his reformist rival Masoud Pezeshkian stirred up a crowd in a nearby stadium.

The two candidates held their final campaign rallies late on Wednesday night, after leading the first-round vote in snap elections to succeed president Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash in May.

Chants of “All Iran says Jalili” echoed as thousands of...