The election this coming Friday will pit reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian against the hard-line former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.
Mohsen Eslami, an election spokesman, announced the result in a news conference carried by Iranian state television. He said of 24.5 million votes cast, Pezeshkian got 10.4 million while Jalili received 9.4 million.
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf got 3.3 million. Shiite cleric Mostafa Pourmohammadi had over 206,000 votes.
The IRGC’s Baqiatallah networks —known as the “Middle Ring”—are involved in every stage of elections to manipulate the vote for Khamenei. From indirect vetting of candidates to forming the bulk of official election monitoring & volunteering roles at polling stations