Sat, 2024-07-06 10:54
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday felicitated Masoud Pezeshkian for his election as the president of Iran.
Reformist candidate Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election on Saturday, besting Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law.
A vote count offered by authorities put Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and longtime lawmaker, as the winner with 16.3 million votes to Jalili’s 13.5 million in Friday’s election.
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