Iran Elections: What to Know
Iranian voters demonstrated their displeasure with Iran’s clerical system of governance during Friday’s presidential election, turning out in record numbers to help two establishment candidates limp to a runoff.The July 5 runoff will give voters a final choice between a reformist former health minister, Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, and an ultra-conservative former nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, neither of whom managed to get more than 50 percent of the votes needed to win the presidency. That puts off for another week the question of who will lead Iran through challenges including an ailing economy, the divide between the rulers and the ruled and a nearby war that continues to threaten to drag Iran further in.But despite being on different sides, neither is expected to bring major changes t...